Simmons is a protean American author who navigates with consummate ease between genres and has won awards for his science fiction and written crime and historical titles. This is a reprint of an early classic novel, a gripping tale of psychic powers, secret societies, vampires, debauchery and slaughter on a worldwide scale. Hailed as one of the great horror novels of the last century by no less than Guillermo del Toro, this is a powerful epic about humanity's deathly attraction to violence. Unmissable.