Time of the Fourth Horseman by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

In other words, Yarbro soon moved a significant distance from sf – which she began publishing with 'The Posture of Prophecy' for If in 1969 – and seems unlikely to return except casually, with the exception of a tale like Taji's Syndrome ( 1988), a Near Future medical thriller. Other non-sf series include the Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon detective sequence with fantasy elements, beginning with Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon ( 1976 vt Bad Medicine 1990 as C Q Yarbro) and the Mycroft Holmes pastiches (see Sherlock Holmes Steampunk) beginning with Against the Brotherhood: A Mycroft Holmes Novel ( 1997) with Bill Fawcett, writing together as Quinn Fawcett.

As these interlinked sequences have progressed, Yarbro has decreasingly concentrated upon the vampirism of her protagonists and spent much more energy establishing some historical verisimilitude for the territories visited, sticking more and more frequently to the end of the Roman Empire, where she has also set some nonfantastic historical novels.

There are two subsidiary sequences, the Atta Olivia Clemens books about Saint-Germain's vampire lover beginning with A Flame in Byzantium ( 1987) and the Madelaine de Montalia books beginning with Out of the House of Life ( 1990). Set in Europe and elsewhere over a span of centuries, the main sequence begins with Hôtel Transylvania: A Novel of Forbidden Love ( 1978) and more than two dozen volumes have since appeared, with further titles expected. After around 1980 she became (and has remained) identified with the Saint-Germain sequence of fantasies about a sympathetic immortal Vampire of aristocratic birth. (1942- ) US composer and author, more active in and better known for her occult and mystery tales than for her early sf, which is mostly restricted to work from the 1970s she has also written as Quinn Fawcett (with Bill Fawcett), Camille Gabor, Trystam Kith and Vanessa Pryor.

Time of the Fourth Horseman by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro