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A Mortal Glamour

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1985)

SubgenreDark Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingHard R
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.41
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Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentExplicit
LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

Sexual AssaultPossessionMental ManipulationDeathPlague/EpidemicReligious TraumaDubious ConsentBody HorrorMass Death

Positive tags

Dark Academia ProtagonistMorally Gray Protagonist

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble CastSupernatural Heroine

Tropes

Ancient Evil ReturnsGrimdarkHaunted LocationMedieval EuropeanSupernatural HorrorHistorical FantasyDemon Possession

Themes

Good vs EvilSocietal CollapseReligious CorruptionTemptationPower and CorruptionSurvivalFaith and Doubt

Synopsis

One of the most perverse stories you have ever written, A Mortal Glamour is among the best revelations of the difference between good and evil in fiction,” said Douglas Clegg to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro when the novel first came out. Set in southern France at the end of the three pandemics of Black Plague that ravaged Europe in the second half of the fourteenth century, the convent at Saunt-Vitre-lo-Sur shows in miniature the collapse of medieval society, and the chaos an incubus/succubus demon brings to nuns and courtiers alike.

Tags

Historical HorrorSupernatural HorrorGothic FantasyLiterary Fantasy