fevre
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Meaning
fevre (plural fevres)
Obsolete form of fever.
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D'Amassa, Don "Martin, George" pages 388-390 from St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers edited by David Pringle, Detroit: St. James Press, 1997 page 390. Martin followed up Fevre Dream with another horror novel, The Armageddon Rag.
Critic Don D'Amassa has praised Fevre Dream for its strong 19th century atmosphere and wrote: "This is without question one of the greatest vampire novels of all time".
The ensuing battle between Julian and York which begins when the former accepts the latter's invitation to visit the Fevre Dream brings catastrophe onto human and vampire alike.
The protagonist of Fevre Dream is Joshua York, a "bloodmaster" vampire with the ability to control other vampires who has created a mixture of blood and wine that is able to feed the vampires who hopes to create a peace between the vampires and humans.
The vampires of Fevre Dream lacked a culture of their own and instead borrowed their culture from humans, whom they ironically hold in contempt as nothing more than "cattle" that exist only to feed them.
To this end, York buys a half-ownership in a Mississippi riverboat Fevre Dream which he makes his home and whose captain, Abner Marsh serves as the novel's narrator.