The Queen of Wolves: Book Three of The Vampyricon

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From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of Afterlife and The Hour Before Dark, comes his first-ever fantasy novel, dealing with the dark edge of a fantastic medieval world. The Priest of Blood is the first novel of The Vampyricon, a saga of sword and sorcery — and vampyres.

After rescuing Pythia, the creature who turned him into a vampire, Aleric follows her back to the land of the Saracens. There, they must raise an army, for Aleric’s lost love, Enora, has become the Queen of the Wastelands.

Aided by her minions and her legions of wolves, she has begun the quest to call the Dark Madonna from beyond the Veil into the world of man.

To stop the end of all, Aleric must become what he was destined to be-the Messiah of the Damned-and lead the undead in a final battle against the Mother of Darkness.

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From Publishers Weekly:
“A titanic battle that pits vampyre against vampyre in a war that will determine for eternity whether the undead will coexist with the living caps the conclusion to Clegg’s majestic Vampyricon trilogy (after The Priest of Bloodand The Queen of Serpents). Aleric, the foreordained Priest of Blood, recounts his escape from the gladiatorial penal colony Aztlanteum with his lover, Pythia, and their efforts to find a haven where they can safely indulge their vampyre needs. Fate draws Aleric inexorably to Myrryd, the former home of Medhya, Queen of Serpents, who was banished beyond the Veil for her overreaching ambitions but who schemes to sneak back and enslave the world under vampyre dominion. Empowered by Merod, the Great Serpent who spawned the vampyre civilization, Aleric raises an army of vamps and mortals for a cataclysmic clash described with the vivid color and intense imagination that have been the saga’s hallmarks. Clegg crafts a fitting finale ornamented with prose that modulates between the sensual and regal and that distinguishes his series as one of the more memorable modern vampire epics. (Sept.)”

“Astonishing. Douglas Clegg writes of…nightmares with such clarity and passion you don’t end up reading his books; you end up drinking them in. The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.”
::Christopher Rice
New York Times bestselling author of A Density of Souls and Light Before Day.

“Clegg’s Vampyricon offers a bold epic of a shadowy medieval world and a dark tale of swords, sorcery and vampires in The Priest of Blood.”
::Christine Feehan
NY Times bestselling author of Oceans of Fire and Dark Secret.

“A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy.”
::Sherrilyn Kenyon
NY Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.

“The Priest of Blood is a richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery — and a rousing good story.”
::Kelley Armstrong
Bestselling author of Haunted.

“The Priest of Blood is a dark, sensual epic of alternate history, grand mythology, and the supernatural. This is Clegg writing at his best. An absorbing read, an astounding accomplishment.”
::M.J. Rose
Author of The Halo Effect.

“For decades, vampire novelists have been attempting to find the perfect blend of Fantasy and Horror. With The Vampyricon, Douglas Clegg has reached that summit. A work of dark, delightful vision.”
::Christopher Golden
Author of Wildwood Road and Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.

The Priest of Blood

“Stunning first volume of a new dark fantasy epic.”

— Publishers Weekly

The Lady of Serpents

“…brims with the same dazzling invention and creative mythography as its predecessor”

— Publishers Weekly

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