He keeps his wives in his cold castle, wraiths without their souls, which he wears in lead vials around his neck. The Darkangel, once a mortal and not quite a vampire, must have 14 brides before he can come into his full power and immortality. The Darkangel… is a solid young adult fantasy worth reading more than once. Here’s an excerpt from the most popular review at Goodreads, Kathryn’s 5-star review from 2007. The series remains popular among modern readers.
The Science Fiction Book Club released a three-volume omnibus in 1990, and Harcourt’s YA imprint Magic Carpet Books finally released the complete trilogy in paperback in the late 90s (see above). The Darkangel Trilogy (Magic Carpet Books, 1998/1999). A third novel, The Pearl of the Soul of the World, eventually appeared five years later to complete the trilogy. It was followed swiftly by a sequel A Gathering of Gargoyles both were published in paperback from Tor.
The Darkangel was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and won the International Reading Association’s annual Children’s Book Award. The novel turned me on to the dark fairytale fiction of Tanith Lee and Patricia McKillip. The plot of the first book owes a great deal to the Bluebeard legend. The heroine has agency, though she isn’t an Action Girl. The moon is full of strange creatures, including gargoyles and a lorelei that lives in a pool of the moon.
It’s set on the moon, a locale which adds an extra eerie element. Gidney ( A Spectral Hue, Skin Deep Magic) caught my attention with this short post.īefore there was Twilight, there was The Darkangelby Meredith Ann Pierce, the original teenage vampire romance novel. I know, right? It’s not just old people and Bob Byrne talking about actors he recognizes. Craftįacebook is a great place to discover vintage fantasy. The Darkangel and A Gathering of Gargoyles (Tor Books, 19).
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