196 Pages. Complete & Unabridged! His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps."
-N. Y. Times [1919] Every note of originality which he discovers In any one he appropriates, reproduces as his own, lustifying himself with this: "I carry the essence of what Is cosmic.... of what is divine.... I am Homer.... Goethe.... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of which Alexander, Caesar. Confucius, and the Christos were also embodiments."
-Publishers Weekly, Vol. 95 [1919] "The central character is cleverly imagined, - a writer who has the power to abstract men's unspoken ideas from their brains, taking credit for them as his own."
-The American Review of Reviews, Vol. 37 [1908]