Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism and the Romanian Ministry of Culture.

Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire, the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction and filtered it through a feminist perspective that both the giving of sustenance and its taking were of equal erotic potency.

A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror.

A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

For more information on Yarbro’s many books and interests, check out her website at Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Received in December 2010: a link to a youtube video: Tribute to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: Thirty Years of Saint-Germain

In November 2010, Yarbro had an article on "Saint Germain and the Lives of Women" posted on DearAuthor.com Saint-Germain and the Lives of Women

In September 2010, Vampchix Blog posted a feature on Yarbro Spotlight on Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

In August 2010, Yarbro had an article "On the Electronic Backlist" posted on Digital-Book-Readers.com. On the Electronic Backlist

"Before the world fell in love with vampires, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St Germain was the wisest, noblest, finest vampire of them all. When all the fashionable vampires have been staked and forgotten, I am certain that St Germain will still be walking through history, thrilling and delighting those of us who love the dark fantastic."
--Neil Gaiman