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The Delicate Dependency

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London, widowed Dr. John Gladstone runs over a beautiful young man named Niccolo Cavalanti with his carriage. When others at the hospital begin to notice the injured man's unnatural healing ability, Gladstone shelters a recovering Niccolo in his home, and soon learns that the kind man is a vampire.
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Niccolo befriends both of Gladstone's daughters, the coming of age Ursula and the blind toddler Camille, and then disappears with Camille. Accompanied by Lady Hespeth Dunaway, a woman whose son was also abducted by Niccolo, Gladstone sets off to find his daughter.
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noted of the novel, "The tension builds page by page to a stunning climax ... I doubt that I will ever forget it.”
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on March 28, 1982, and eventually went out of print. It was republished by
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The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life
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Michael Talbot
Horror
Avon Books
ISBN
978-0-380-77982-6
vampire
Michael Talbot
Victorian
Avon Books
Valancourt Books
Publishers Weekly
Whitley Strieber
Fangoria
"Obituaries: Michael Talbot, Writer, 38"
The New York Times
"Early Gay Literature Rediscovered"
Huffington Post



"The Delicate Dependency (1982) by Michael Talbot"
Valancourt Books
Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture
ISBN
978-0-313-37833-1
Fangoria
Categories
1982 American novels
American horror novels

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