THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY (1982), now available for the first time in 30 years, has long been regarded as one of the best vampire novels ever written, but until now readers have been forced to pay huge sums for dilapidated old paperback copies. It was the first, and best, novel by Michael Talbot (1953-1994), a brilliant gay author more famous for a nonfiction book, The Holographic Universe, which examines the idea that the entire universe is a holographic projection. THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY is set in Victorian London, where an eminent virologist finds himself caught up in the world of the vampire when they kidnap his daughter, a blind savant, and he must go in pursuit. We won’t spoil the plot, but let’s just say you can forget all the usual vampire fiction clichés: you’ve never read anything like this novel. How good is it? It has 21 five-star reviews on Amazon and a whopping 4.34 average on Goodreads! Features a new foreword by Jillian Venters and cover art by M.S. Corley: http://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-delicate-dependency-1982.html (PS: For some reason Amazon is displaying the paperback as ‘temporarily unavailable’, but trust us, order the book and it will come.)