From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.
Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels including Hide Me Among the Graves, Three Days to Never, Declare, Last Call, and On Stranger Tides, which inspired the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award twice, and the World Fantasy Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.
He’s won the World Fantasy Award, the British Science-Fiction Society Award, and other awards with the word “fantasy” in them. But if you aren’t a loyal reader of those kinds of books, you might not know who he is. But you really should!
Tim Powers is the author to turn to if you want to uncover the secret history beneath the truths you think you know. In fiction, a secret history is something like an alternate history, picking the threads of real historical events and spinning them into grand tapestries of conspiracy—all the accepted reasons for any given […]
Tim Powers writes the best twisty, timey-wimey secret histories around, but he doesn’t write them very fast, which is why it’s so exciting to crack open Medusa’s Web, released nearly four years after his last novel, Hide Me Among the Graves. In speculative fiction, readers talk a lot about world-building, that quality that is somewhere near the idea of readability in both […]
