description: Winner of the 1990 World Fantasy Award, Mythopoeic Award, and Locus Poll Award. Set early in the 19th century, Powers's ( On Stranger Tides ) seventh novel is a horror story that wonderfully evokes the period. On the stormy night before his wedding, Dr. Michael Crawford, in an ill-advised moment while drinking and carousing with two of his friends, slips his intended's ring on the finger of a statue of a woman in the inn's courtyard. The next morning the statue has disappeared. Disturbed, Crawford purchases a new ring and goes to his wedding. The night's celebrations are followed by a morning infinitely more horrifying than the previous one—Crawford awakens to find his bride murdered. Doubting his own sanity, he flees England, becoming aware that he is pursued by a lamia—a malignant female spirit. He seeks help from his friends, the poets Byron and Shelley, who, it turns out, have experience with such a monster. Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels, but most particularly as a chilling horror-adventure.
title: The Stress of Her Regard
titlecomplete: The Stress of Her Regard
characters: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, Vampires, Historical Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 4165
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Novela