Sweeping from high society to grimy slums, elegant West End salons to pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. These wildly mismatched allies – a strait-laced animal doctor, and ex-prostitute, a poet, a painter, and even the Artful Dodger-like young daughter – must ultimately choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers. Joining forces with the girl's unlikely parents, they are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence they never suspected. The Rossettis know the time has come – Polidori must be stopped. And he has resurrected Dante's dead wife, transforming her into a horrifying vampire. He is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, the daughter of a veterinarian and a reformed prostitute he once haunted. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel.īut Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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