BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX:
Novels
Anthologies & Collections
Novelizations & Tie-ins
Short Fiction
Nonfiction & Miscellaneous
Saint-Germain by Chronology
Saint-Germain by Publication Date

THE SAINT-GERMAIN CYCLE & WORKS
(in historical order)

OUT OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE (see below)
Although not set there, does contain information concerning Saint-Germain's life in ancient Egypt (1495-523 BC).

DARK OF THE SUN (see below)
Although not set in the period, the book refers to Saint-Germain's birth in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, the beginnings of his vampiric existance and earliest years of undeath (2080-1949 BC).

1. Begins circa 68 BC: BLOOD GAMES (1st Pub: St Martin's, 1979)
   Beginning during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68), Sanct' Germain finds his way through the political turmoil of the time, and becomes the lover of the incomparable Atta Olivia Clemens. They leave Rome in AD 71.


2. 218-220: ROMAN DUSK (1st pub: Tor, 2006)
   The story takes place in Rome from 218-220, during the short debauched reign of Heliogabalus, who became Caesar at 14 and was killed at 18, two years after the novel ends. Focuses on some of the ways the Roman Empire failed to support itself at a crucial time and deals with the erosion of women's rights and the corruption of the civil service.


3. 430s: BURNING SHADOWS (To be published by Tor, 2009)
   The novel is set in what is now known as Hungary and Romania during the early years of Hunnic aggression.


4. 536-545: DARK OF THE SUN (1st Pub: Tor 2004)
   Zangi-Ragozh is a merchant in sixth-century A.D. Yang-Chau (Shanghai). As a result of the eruption of volcano a Krakatoa, agriculture and the economy are disrupted; illness spreads, social unrest and collapse follow. Saint-Germain determines to travel across Asia to his native soil in the Carpathian Mountains.


5. 546-551: A FLAME IN BYZANTIUM (1st Pub: Tom Doherty, 1987)
   Atta Olivia Clemens, forced to leave Rome, journeys to the Constantinople of Justinian and discovers how much she has lost.


6. Begins Circa 620: COME TWILIGHT (1st Pub: Tor, 2000)
   In 622 in Spain, Sanct' Germain makes a vampire of Csimenae. Csimenae kills mercilessly and creates vampires thoughtlessly. For five hundred years, she hunts until exposed as a vampire. Focuses on Csimenae and Spain over a period of about 500 years, ending around 1130.


7. 796-804: NIGHT BLOOMING (1st Pub: Warner Aspect 2002)
   Hiermon Ragoczy de Santus Germainius travels in A.D. 796 to Tours and later Aachen to advise the Frankish king, Karl-lo-Magne (Charlemagne). He and saintly albino Gynethe Mehaut eventually cross paths in Rome, where their passions ignite. Atta Olivia Clemens also appears


8. 939-940: BETTER IN THE DARK (1st Pub: Tor, 1993)
   Washed ashore after a shipwreck near Lubeck in the tenth century, Saint-Germain owes his survival to the valiant Randegonda, and his near-destruction to her sister-in-law, Pentacoste.


9. 1189-1214: CRUSADER'S TORCH (1st Pub: Tom Doherty, 1988)
   Caught up in the hysteria of the Crusades, Olivia seeks to leave Tyre and return to Rome; this proves to be far more difficult than she had expected.


10. Circa 1216: PATH OF THE ECLIPSE (1st Pub: St Martin's, 1981)
    Traveling from China to Tibet and India during the rise of Jenghiz Khan, Saint-Germain is driven by circumstances from one place to the next in his search for a safe and tolerant haven.


11. 1345-1388: BLOOD ROSES (1st Pub: Tor, 1998)
    Saint-Germain's pleasant life Provence in the mid-fourteenth century is ended by the arrival of the Black Plague. Driven north, he is forced to change his identity to that of a troubador in order to survive.


12. 1398-1401: A FEAST IN EXILE (1st Pub: Tor, 2002)
    In Delhi at the end of the 14th century, Sanat Ji Mani witnesses the sacking of the city by the forces of Timur-i Lenhk and is taken captive by the Turko-Mongol warlord. A providential escape with Tulsi Kil, a female acrobat, puts the two of them on their own in west-central India, struggling to stay alive.


13. 1490-1498: THE PALACE (1st Pub: St Martin's, 1978)
    Renaissance Florence provides the background for this story of the collapse of the artistic and literary life of the city after the death of San Germano's friend, Lorenzo the Magnificent, followed by the rise of the fanatical Savonarola.


14. 1530-1538: STATES OF GRACE (To be published: Nov 2005, Tor)
    Takes place during the Reformation with the story moving from Venice to Amsterdam and back to Venice with a focus on the upheaval of the period, with emphasis on publishing.


15. 1533-1586: DARKER JEWELS (1st Pub: Tor, 1993)
    Sent by the King of Poland to the Russian court of Ivan the Terrible, Saint-Germain is caught in the complex web of intrigue, and the emotional strife of his arranged marriage.

[1610, see below]


16. 1637-1673: A CANDLE FOR D'ARTAGNAN (1st Pub: Tor, 1989)
    Sent to Paris as an aide to Cardinal Mazarin, Olivia becomes enmeshed in the machinations of the court, and gains the undying devotion of a young Gascon officer.


17. 1642-1649: MANSIONS OF DARKNESS (1st Pub: Tor, 1996)
    Beginning in Peru, San Germanno becomes the lover of Acanna Tupac, one of the few remaining Incan nobility. When he falls under suspicion from the Church, he flees northward, finally arriving in Mexico where a terrible ordeal awaits him at the hands of the Dona Azul.

[Between 1647-1666: "Intercession" (novella)
A series of letters penned by Roderigo (Roger) during a time when his master Saint-Germain is imprisoned.]
(in Apprehensions and Other Delusions, Five Star & The Repentant, ed. Brian M. Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW. Both 2003)]


18. 1688-1698: COMMUNION BLOOD (1st Pub: Tor, 1999)
    Summoned to Rome by Niklos Aulirios, who is being sued for Olivia's estates, Saint-Germain enters into the cultural life of the Eternal City while doing his best to avoid the scrutiny of the ever-present Roman Inquisition.


19. 1704-1706: A DANGEROUS CLIMATE (1st Pub: Tor, 2008)
    Tsar Piotyr I, or Peter the Great, is founding of the Russian city of Sankt Piterburkh at the mouth of the Neva River on the Baltic Sea. Representatives of the European states are jockeying for power and influence over the Czar. A man shows up claiming to be the Count Saint-Germain, the vampire must figure out how to protect his title and wealth without revealing either his true identity or his True Nature.


20. 1743-1744: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (1st Pub: St Martin's, 1978)
    Saint-Germain makes his first appearance in a story that blends history and fiction as Saint-Germain is pitted against Satanists to preserve Madelaine de Montalia from ruin.


21. 1817: BORNE IN BLOOD (1st Pub: Tor, 2007)
    Takes place in Europe in 1817 when Napoleon was out of the picture and a big weather shift was underway. In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. The Count has become intrigued by the work of an Austrian noble investigating the properties of blood. But when the noble's beautiful ward fixates sexually on the Count, the vampire fears for himself and his gentle lover.


22. 1825-1828 (see also, dates above): OUT OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE (1st Pub: Tor, 1990)
    Madelaine de Montalia fulfills her dream of exploring the ruins of Egypt, aided by the information Saint-Germain provides her.


23. 1845-1860: IN THE FACE OF DEATH (1st Pub: Ben Bella, 2004)
    Madelaine de Montalia sets out in 1845 to live with and study American Indian tribes. Arriving in 1855 San Francisco, she and William Tecumseh Sherman, a banker, fall passionately in love. Madelaine finds herself trapped in 1860 Alabama during the Civil War and reunites with General Sherman.

[1871, see below]


24. 1910-1912: WRIT IN BLOOD (1st Pub: Tor, 1997)
    A prequel to TEMPTING FATE, WRIT IN BLOOD reveals Saint-Germain's role in Czar Nicholas' attempt to stop World War I from beginning. From Russia to England, Saint-Germain's diplomatic mission brings him into the tangled mass of political connivances, and gains him the love of the rebellious young artist, Rowena Saxon.


25. 1917-1928: TEMPTING FATE (1st Pub: St Martin's, 1982)
    The Russian Revolution and the end of World War I sets in motion Saint-Germain's flight into Germany with his adopted daughter only to find tragedy on the streets of Munich as the Nazi party begins its rise to power.


26. 1936-1938: MIDNIGHT HARVEST (1st Pub: Warner Aspect 2003)
    Set in the 1930s primarily in the USA. Saint-Germain reunites with Rowena Saxon (first met in Writ in Blood) and helps vintner Carlo Pietragnelli who is suffering theft by "midnight harvesters." The Count also must deal with Ku Klux Klan-like White Legion and a ruthless assassin who has followed him from Europe.


27. THE SAINT-GERMAIN CHRONICLES (1st Pub: Pocket, 1983)
    Five stories trace Saint-Germain's activities from 1901 through 1977:
• 1901 (with reference back to 1610): "Spider Glass"
  A tale of a family heirloom, a mirror.


• 1943: "Renewal"
  War journalist James Tree sets out for one of Madelaine's chateau after a jeep accident, only to discover that much, including himself, is not as it seems.


• 1953: "Art Songs"
  A concert by a brilliant artist, and a meeting of old friends.


• 1969: "Seat Partner"
  A young woman returning from a Romanian vacation meets a man she seeks.


• 1977: "Cabin 33"
  When another vampire seems unable to control his urges Saint-Germain must intervene.

Additionally, two other stories were collected in the limited edition THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO:

• 1871: "A Question of Patronage"
  Saint-Germain helps an aspiring actor to reach for his dream.


• In the Future: "Advocates"
  A shared world story with Saint-Germain and Suzy Mckee Charnas's vampire Weyland set in the future when vampires rule.