Book Teaser: Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers

Hide Me Among the Graves

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB; choose sentences at random from your current read. Identify the author and title for readers.

"What...are they? The g-ghost, two years ago, I used garlic and the river to hide from it.

"Didn't you have any garlic tonight?" (p. 35)

Title: Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers
Published March 13, 2012; William Morrow
Genre: metaphysical intrigue, mystery

Book setting: Winter, 1862. 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. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel. (goodreads)