 The novel placed second in the 1996 Locus Poll Award for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel, and won the 1996 Lord Ruthven Award for fiction.In this sequel to "Those Who Hunt the Night", professor James Asher and his young wife, Lydia, are again swept up in the dangerous world of the undead.It is 1908, and a weary Asher, traveling home from his tiresome duties as executor of a relative's estate, spots Charles Farren, vampire Earl of Ernchester, clearly involved in some intrigue with mercenary and enemy spy Ignace Karolyi.