Description
Winter 1917. After years on the run from a dangerous cult, twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his father have established themselves among the Odonic Empire's ruling class. But there's a problem: Sasza is a vampire, and vampires aren't supposed to get involved in human governance. What the aristocracy doesn't know, after all, cannot hurt them.
Unfortunately, Sasza is far more involved than a stealth vampire should be. Not only does he work to quell the rumors of the vampires' responsibility for an unsolved massacre, his lover is also the pro-proletariat Ilya, the Empire's Finance Minister, who tries to recruit Sasza into the same cult hunting him.
Then-the Emperor declares war against the Vampire States. Diplomacy has failed. Sasza quickly learns that he will do anything to preserve peace-including giving in to the monstrosity he spent so many years concealing from even himself.
Product Details
| Publisher | Robot Dinosaur Press |
| Publish Date | March 12, 2024 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9798989398706 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds |
Reviews
"Grotesqueries abound in The Fealty of Monsters-and when Ladz is the one conducting the horror, you know it's worth your time. This is one revolution best witnessed from the splash zone, so buckle up, put on your poncho, and get ready for the multiple blood baths to follow." - T.D. Cloud, author of OSSUARY
"With the dark gothic fantasy sensibilities of Berserk, Castlevania, and Bloodborne, Ladz's first volume of THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS is thrilling, gory, and queer as hell. A must-read." -Morgan Dante, author of A FLAME IN THE NIGHT
"With prose as sharp and glittering as broken glass, Ladz weaves an unflinching tale of gothic gruesomeness, showing that the most dangerous monsters live where we least expect it-in the hearts of us all." -K.M. Enright, author of MISTRESS OF LIES
"With THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS, Ladz has built a world with foundations in Russian history but enhanced with an incredible dose of the gothic, macabre and brutally sexy. This is dark, bloody aristocratic politics with machinations so deep you won't trust a single character. A staple work of dark fantasy!" -Brent Lambert, author of A NECESSARY CHAOS
"The last days of the Russian Empire refracted through a blood-spattered, and gold-plated, lens into horror, magic, intrigue, and the best kind of scuzzy carnality. What else could you possibly need?" -Elijah Kinch Spector, author of KALYNA THE SOOTHSAYER
"Contempt for vampires, specifically the monstrous hybrids called bestiapirs, chills the air for one year after the massacre of 1917. Sasza is one such vampire working in stealth among the Odonic Empire's diplomats, alongside his father Wladyslaw "Wladek" Czarnolaski, the Imperial Magician. Their wavering political certainty begins to be tested when a retaliatory war against the Vampire States rears its noble head, and Sasza's friendship with the Crown undergoes metamorphosis into an alliance befitting beasts. An ominous, unsettling novel that knows how to scare." -Pom Poison, creator of LITTLE DEATH
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