The Stress of Her Regard - Softcover

Good serious fantasy doesn’t come much better than The Stress of Her Regard.”
Oxford Times

Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels....”
Publishers Weekly

Powers’s framing of a vast, mysterious conspiracy, with ancient supernatural powers, hidden riddles, and secret societies, rivals anything written by Umberto Eco....”
Blogcritics Magazine

Intricately laced plots, theories of magick advanced and practical, and strange-but-true historical incidents.”
Green Man Review

...well-written and overflowing with imagination....”
Bookgasm

"Tim Powers is a genius."
—Algis Budrys, author, The Death Machine

Doing what Powers does best, by interspersing a dozen plot lines and characters with a bucket-load of paranormal and tying them up perfectly, he has conjured a tale that could be taken from the history books and taught as fact, and no one would even bother to challenge it. The unfortunate truth is that it’s not real, and that’s what it makes it all the more amazing.”
SF Crowsnest

The secret history of the Romantic poets: Powers masterfully recasts the tragic lives of the Romantics into a uniquely frightening tale.