News in remembrance Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, 1942—2025 The author of the Saint Germain cycle was 82. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 3, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, a World Horror Association Grand Master, died this past weekend at the age of 82. The author of more than 80 novels, Yarbro was best known for her Saint Germain Cycle, a historical vampire series that included more than two dozen books and began, in 1978, with Hôtel Transylvania: A Novel of Forbidden Love. She also wrote mysteries, Westerns, fantasy, science fiction, and more. Yarbro began her career as a playwright, writing for what her bio describes as “a now long-defunct children’s theater company.” Before becoming a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and drafted maps for her own books and books by other writers. Yarbro wrote under several pseudonyms, including Quinn Fawcett (for works co-written with Bill Fawcett), Trystam Kith, Terry Nelson Bonner, T. C. F. Hopkins, Camille Gabor, and Vanessa Pryor. She earned a literary knighthood from the Transylvanian Society of Dracula in 1997, the World Horror Association’s Grand Master award in 2003, became a Living Legend with the International Horror Guild in 2006, and, in 2014, the World Fantasy Convention honored her with a Life Achievement Award. Peter Straub said of her work, “Quinn Yarbro is one of our finest writers and craftspersons, incapable of a sloppy sentence, a slack paragraph, or a fuzzy thought.” A post on Yarbro’s Facebook page goes into some detail about her passing, and says, “Quinn’s health had been declining for some time in ways which gradually limited her mobility, productivity, and communications. Over a year ago she became bedridden, and then her kidneys failed, which required being taken in an ambulance to dialysis three times a week. Despite this very difficult treatment regimen she remained brightly engaged, surrounded by books while binging her favorite TV shows and classical music channels, and enjoying visits from friends.” A memorial service—with magicians, the Facebook post notes—will take place a year and a day after Yarbro’s death. It also mentions that she wrote “several” books that have not yet been published, and that there are plans to re-release some of her out-of-print works. A GoFundMe has been set up to help Yarbro’s sister pay for medical expenses.[end-mark] The post Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, 1942—2025 appeared first on Reactor.