![]() My original publishers didn't like it much because they had been expecting another vampire novel, but I was far happier with this story than with The Evil Seed. This was my second novel, published the same year my daughter was born. ![]() Sleep, Pale Sister is a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life. Drawn by her lover, Mose, into a dangerous underworld of intrigue and blackmail, she meets Fanny Miller, the brothel-keeper, and her shadowy daughter, Marta - murdered ten years ago on the day of Henry's weekly visitĪnd as a friendship becomes possession and Henry's secret past is revealed, Effie and Marta plan their revenge together. But something inside her is about to awaken. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian Artist, is in search of the perfect model. ![]()
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