Blood Stone · #2
DRACULA? A mere figment of superstition, a thing that could not exist.
SABELLA?
A very real person, an enticing girl of flesh and warmth – who detested
the sunlight, who required the blood of young men to feed upon, who was
all that Dracula was said to be except never one of the "undead."
Sabella was alive, sensual and dangerous.
She lived on Nova
Mars, a colony of Earth and very much like the world we know. She knew
what she was and her very existence was a peril to the all-too-human
population of that world.
Never since C. L. Moore's Shambleau has there been another like Sabella.
Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). She also wrote under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
