Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by best-selling U. S. novelist George R. R. Martin. It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River beginning in 1857 and can be described as "Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain". The novel was first published in the U. S. by Poseidon Press in 1982 and still remains in print. Fevre Dream was reprinted in 2001 by Orion Books as volume 13 of their Fantasy Masterworks series and was nominated in 1983 for both the Locus Poll Award and World Fantasy Award.