| Author | Tim Powers |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | James Gurney |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fantasy, Horror fiction |
| Publisher | Ace Books(Hardcover edition) |
Publication date | September 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 392 pp (Hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-441-79055-0 (Hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 19516702 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3566.O95 S87 1989 |
| Followed by | Hide Me Among the Graves (2012) |
The Stress of Her Regard is a 1989 horror/fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It was nominated for the 1990 World Fantasy and Locus Awards in 1990,[1] and won a Mythopoeic Award. As with a number of Powers's other novels, it proposes a secret history in which real events have supernatural causes: in this case, the lives of famous English Romantic writers—as well as political events in central Europe during the early 19th century—are largely determined by a race of protean vampire-like creatures known as nephilim.
Drawing from European and Middle Eastern mythology, Powers depicts these beings as having qualities of vampires, succubi, incubi, Lamia, fairies, and jinn. Not only predators but sometimes benefactors of humans, they are the basis for both the Muses and the Graeae.