{"product_id":"9781626369443","title":"Empire of Fear: An Epic Vampire Novel","description":"In an epic novel the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e called “riveting,” Brian Stableford brilliantly  imagines a world ruled by a powerful aristocracy of vampires: long-lived, extraordinarily handsome humans who are immune to pain but must drink the blood  of their common subjects. The story begins in seventeenth-century London and  spans three hundred years—moving from England to the heart of Africa, to  Malta, and finally to the New World. Edmund Cordery, Mechanician to the  court of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, believes that vampire beings must have a natural explanation. But when his discoveries make him dangerous in the eyes of  his masters, Edmund entrusts his learned secrets to his son, Noell, who in turn  becomes a fugitive. When he returns to Europe he faces the awesome might of  Coeur-de-Lion and the infamous Vlad the Impaler. This classic has been translated into five languages and “turn[ed] the typical vampire story on its ear” when  it was published, according to the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136118767856,"sku":"9781626369443","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626369443_p0.jpg?v=1763862203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626369443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}