Available is this 245 page hardcover with unclipped dust jacket titled "The Golden" by Lucius Shepard and published in 1993 by Ziesing of Shingletown, California as a stated first edition and flat-signed on the title page by the author. If you like vampire stories - this book is for you. The community of vampires known as the Family meets in Castle Banat high in the Carpathians to celebrate the Decanting, a ritual that marks the successful conclusion of a five-hundred year breeding program designed to produce that rarest vintage of all human blood, The Golden. 

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