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(2003)
Nocturne
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Blood to Blood
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(1995)
Baroness of Blood
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(1994)
Blood Rites
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(1994)
Daughter of the Night
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- Legal name: Elaine Bergstrom
- Birthdate: 1946 (age 66)
- Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio,
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.elainebergstrom.com
- Genres: Fantasy, Horror
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Elaine Bergstrom has always had a love for exotic and historic locales, creepy houses, twisted characters and doomed romance--all of which grew out of her youthful habits of excessive reading of gothic novels and short stories by Lovecraft and Poe, and a near-compulsive attendance at her local theater's Saturday matinee double creature features.
Her first novel, Shattered Glass, first published in 1989 set the bar for vampire romance. It is set in the mid-50s and tells the story of Stephen Austra, a brilliant glassworker and head of a small family of immortals. He comes to Cleveland to restore the church windows he'd built a century earlier. There he meets Helen Wells, a crippled young woman and talented artist. Their attraction is immediate and intense but, as their relationship grows, he realizes she has the potential to alter his family forever. And their love places her in terrible danger from a force that, with all his power, he is unable to control. It is currently available (uncut for the first time) on Kindle with a reissue in trade paperback coming early in 2011.
Blood Alone, Blood Rites and Nocturne are also available on Kindle.
2 A.M. Magazine said of Glass, "One of the best vampire novels I have ever read (ranked right up there with 'Salem's Lot and Sunglasses After Dark)."
The novel received critical acclaim and was followed by Blood Alone, a prequel to Glass set during World War II. Bergstrom's most dense novel, it is the dual story of young Laurence Austra and love for Colleen Moore and Paul Stoddard, a jaded young architect in Stephen's employ who finds love and horrible challenges. Read before or after Glass, it merges two intense love stories with espionage -- a page turning WWII thriller. It is currently available on Kindle with a reissue in trade paperback coming sometime in 2011.
Fangoria said of it, "There are spies galore in bedrooms and ballrooms...and more than one kind of hot, bloody climax ... an entertaining deviation from the usual vampire formula.
Blood Rites continues the story of Stephen and Helen, now presumed dead and living in secret in a remote area of Canada where they are raising their twin sons. When Helen's uncle comes to them for help, he has been followed and soon Helen is wrenched away from her family and must use all her new found powers to survive.
Onyx Magazine said of it, "Elaine Bergstrom is one of those rare authors that can take an old theme and give it a truly unique twist … I haven’t read any vampire novels that came close to these since Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s Those of My Blood. The trio – Rice, Lichtenberg and Bergstrom – are, in my opinion, the modern-day architects of vampire lore."
The story continues in Nocturne, in which Stephen and Helen's sons are featured, and in the new novel Beyond Sundown (releasing early in 2011) which tells the origin of the family and gives a new twist on their relationship with humankind. The series also includes Daughter of the Night, an Austra novel featuring the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory.
Additional novels, originally published under the pseudonym Marie Kiraly include Mina...the Dracula Story Continues and Blood to Blood...the Dracula Story Continues. Both were featured in the Doubleday and Science Fiction Book Clubs. A complete list of her books is on her website elainebergstrom.com
Elaine currently teaches an ongoing novel writer's workshop in Milwaukee. Her official site is Elainebergstrom.com and the Austra fanblog austravampireblog.wordpress.com.
Her first novel, Shattered Glass, first published in 1989 set the bar for vampire romance. It is set in the mid-50s and tells the story of Stephen Austra, a brilliant glassworker and head of a small family of immortals. He comes to Cleveland to restore the church windows he'd built a century earlier. There he meets Helen Wells, a crippled young woman and talented artist. Their attraction is immediate and intense but, as their relationship grows, he realizes she has the potential to alter his family forever. And their love places her in terrible danger from a force that, with all his power, he is unable to control. It is currently available (uncut for the first time) on Kindle with a reissue in trade paperback coming early in 2011.
Blood Alone, Blood Rites and Nocturne are also available on Kindle.
2 A.M. Magazine said of Glass, "One of the best vampire novels I have ever read (ranked right up there with 'Salem's Lot and Sunglasses After Dark)."
The novel received critical acclaim and was followed by Blood Alone, a prequel to Glass set during World War II. Bergstrom's most dense novel, it is the dual story of young Laurence Austra and love for Colleen Moore and Paul Stoddard, a jaded young architect in Stephen's employ who finds love and horrible challenges. Read before or after Glass, it merges two intense love stories with espionage -- a page turning WWII thriller. It is currently available on Kindle with a reissue in trade paperback coming sometime in 2011.
Fangoria said of it, "There are spies galore in bedrooms and ballrooms...and more than one kind of hot, bloody climax ... an entertaining deviation from the usual vampire formula.
Blood Rites continues the story of Stephen and Helen, now presumed dead and living in secret in a remote area of Canada where they are raising their twin sons. When Helen's uncle comes to them for help, he has been followed and soon Helen is wrenched away from her family and must use all her new found powers to survive.
Onyx Magazine said of it, "Elaine Bergstrom is one of those rare authors that can take an old theme and give it a truly unique twist … I haven’t read any vampire novels that came close to these since Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s Those of My Blood. The trio – Rice, Lichtenberg and Bergstrom – are, in my opinion, the modern-day architects of vampire lore."
The story continues in Nocturne, in which Stephen and Helen's sons are featured, and in the new novel Beyond Sundown (releasing early in 2011) which tells the origin of the family and gives a new twist on their relationship with humankind. The series also includes Daughter of the Night, an Austra novel featuring the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory.
Additional novels, originally published under the pseudonym Marie Kiraly include Mina...the Dracula Story Continues and Blood to Blood...the Dracula Story Continues. Both were featured in the Doubleday and Science Fiction Book Clubs. A complete list of her books is on her website elainebergstrom.com
Elaine currently teaches an ongoing novel writer's workshop in Milwaukee. Her official site is Elainebergstrom.com and the Austra fanblog austravampireblog.wordpress.com.
