The Vampire Library

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#7) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Publisher: 2000 ISBN: 0-676-97331-0 Pages: 307 In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent  tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft.     At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres , a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reigned in the shadowy world where African and French--the dark and the white--intermingled. Her ancestors are the great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she inherits the power and the magical knowledge of a Circe.    Into this exotic realm comes David Talbot--hero, storytel...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#6) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1998 ISBN: 0-679-45447-0 Pages: 388 In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire , the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.    Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood--a ruined city under Mongol dominion--and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and w...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#5) Author: Anne Rice Published: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1995 ISBN: 0-679-44101-8 Pages: 354 In Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.    He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death.    We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has.    While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous adversaries he has yet known.    He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly ...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#4) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1992 ISBN: 0-679-40528-3 Pages: 430 In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire  and continued with The Vampire Lestat  and The Queen of the Damned .    Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has under-taken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.     The Tale of the Body Thief  is told with the unique--the mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention th...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#3) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1988 Pages: 448 ISBN: 0-394-55823-5 In 1976, a uniquely  seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire ... in 1985, a wild and voluptuous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat ... and now, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" with The Queen of the Damned . It is a feat of mesmeric story-telling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.    Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds: The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshiped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of al...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#2) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1985 Pages: 481 ISBN: 0-394-53443-3 "If you surrender and go with her, you have surrendered to enchantment, as if in a voluptuous dream," said the Boston Globe  of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire . Now, returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created, she demonstrates once again her power to enthrall. With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire  and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality. And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.    As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five year...