A review by theomnivorescientist
The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life by Michael Talbot

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

A doctor in Victorian London working on the cause of influenza in his home laboratory encounters vampires who have abducted his prodigal daughter. The story catapults from here to the rescuing of the child and we enter vivid psychoanalysis of the vampire mind. Here the vampiric life is shown to be the hidden proprietors of technological and scientific advances. For a horror novel, this book has quite the lavishness of a rich historical fiction. Michael Talbot is famous for his theory of the Holographic Universe and I was quite surprised with this fictional experiment of his. The work of a true polymath.