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The Queen of the Damned

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 all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him...
  • The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end...
  • Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires--rises after a 6,000-year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and to make "all the myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment on be the cause"...
   These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being emptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed. Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.
   In this most elaborate and enthralling of Anne Rice's vampire novels, she transports us more deeply than ever before into the complex, erotic, electrifying vampire world she has so masterfully created.


Precursor to the book: The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
What to read next: The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)

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