The Vampire Library

Series: Dead Is (#6) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Graphia Year Published: 2012 ISBN: 978-0-547-607344 Pages: 227 Jessica Walsh is starting her freshman year at Nightshade High and trying to forget about the tragic events surrounding her brother's graduation. She wants to have a normal  high school experience. But that's easier said than done in Nightshade.    When a new boy shows up at school, the girls are infected with a case of seriously creepy crushes. But when their obsession turns to violence, Jessica and her friends start to wonder if there's more going on than just a little friendly rivalry. Are the smitten girls turning into love zombies?    And Jessica has other worries--like her crush on Dominic Gray, the cute but moody new singer for Side Effects May Vary, and the mysterious tattoo that appeared on her arm one day that lets her know whenever there is trouble brewing. Jessica learns she's a Virago, a woman warrior chosen to fight evil whenev...

Series: Dead Is (#5) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Graphia Year Published: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-547-34593-2 Pages: 240 It's springtime of senior year, and psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano is preparing to say goodbye to Nightshade High. But no college acceptance letters have arrived yet, and she's beginning to worry about where she'll end up come fall--and if it will be anywhere near her boyfriend, Ryan. But that's not the only uncertainty Daisy's dealing with. There's a vamps versus shifters war going on in Nightshade, and things are so tense that there is talk of canceling the prom. The conflict is carrying over to the Giordano home, since Rose and Daisy are both dating werewolves and Poppy's new boyfriend is a vampire.    Daisy's investigations involve mysterious new folks in town--and some old familiar faces, like her nemesis, celebrity chef/sorceress Circe Silvertongue. Can Daisy persuade Circe to free the spirit she trapped in a jukebox long ago, a...

Series: Dead Is (#4) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year Published: 2010 ISBN: 978-0-547-34592-5 Pages: 201 As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its two hundredth anniversary--on Halloween, of course--many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find who is behind the threats. But launching an investigation isn't easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her every move. Though she's happy to have him back after the years he spent being held captive by an anti-paranormal group called the Scourge, Dad is having a difficult time adjusting to home life--and the fact that his little girl is now a senior in high school. He even disapproves of Daisy's boyfriend, Ryan.    Ryan, meanwhile, to Daisy's dismay, has been considering some faraway colleges thanks to the advice of Nightshade High's new guidance counselor. Can their re...

Series: Dead Is (#3) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year Published: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-15-206216-3 Pages: 192 Who would have thought the notoriously spooky little town of Nightshade, California, could get twice  as weird? The summer before Daisy Giordano's senior year, it does.    With their mom working on a case overseas, the Giordano sisters are on their own. These smart psychic teens have no trouble taking care of themselves. They score jobs: Daisy starts working at her favorite diner, Slim's; beach-loving Poppy mans a snack stand on the boardwalk; and Rose land a coveted position as a research assistant to the mysterious Dr. Franken.    But then summer gets strange. Residents of Nightshade are suddenly seeing double. Doppelgangers--look-alikes of similar friends and neighbors--are popping up all over town. Daisy, Rose, and Poppy think it's a coincidence, until the rumors start that their father, who disappeared several years ago, is ba...

Series: Dead Is (#2) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year Published: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-15-206210-1 Pages: 175 When it comes to guys, the Giordano sisters sure know how to pick 'em: Rose is dating an undertaker. Poppy is dating a ghost. And Daisy is still with her longtime love, Ryan... or is she? Prom is only weeks away and Ryan still hasn't asked her to be his date.    But there's a gorgeous new guy at Nightshade High who has his eye on Daisy: Duke Sherrad, a fortune-teller claiming to have descended from Gypsies. Even though she's psychic herself, Daisy is skeptical of Duke's powers. But when a teacher who was the subject of one of his predictions ends up dead, she begins to wonder if Duke is  the real deal after all.    Maybe  if Daisy can track down the teacher's killer, she can find out the truth. The only trouble is, all signs point to the murderer being of the furry  persuasion. Is Daisy any match for a werewolf? Maybe she...

Series: Dead Is (#1) Author: Marlene Perez Publisher: Harcourt Books Year Published: 2008 ISBN: 978-0-15-206408-2 Pages: 190 Everyone is the Giordano family is psychic--except for Daisy. When her mother, who uses her power to solve crimes, enlists Daisy's older sister to investigate a teenage girl's mysterious death, Daisy feels utterly useless. But she takes matters into her own hands when she learns the victim has lots of company--teenage girls are being attacked all over town, including at Nightshade High School, where Daisy is a junior. And when she discovers a vampire  may be the culprit, Daisy suspects head cheerleader Samantha Devereaux, who returned from summer break with a new "look." She looks a little... well, dead.    Is looking dead just another fashion trend for pretty, popular Samantha, or is there something more sinister afoot? Daisy will stop at nothing to find out--she even joins the cheerleading squad. And with a little sleuthing help from Ryan...

Author: Rafael Nieves, Ken Holewczynski Publisher: Caliber Comics Year Published: 2017 ISBN: 978-1942351931 Pages: 58 Beyond the Carpathian Mountains, in a land called Transylvania, there lived a monster that preyed on men and fed on their blood. It crossed the sea one night to seek out a woman of great beauty, and great power. Driven by a hunger greater than any mere bloodlust...    Presenting the graphic novel adaptation of F.W. Murnau's classic tale of love, life and undeath: Nosferatu.

Author: Jim Shepard Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1998 ISBN: 0-679-44667-2 Pages: 215 From this prodigiously talented writer, a stunningly original "life" of F.W. Murnau, the German director.    In the history of cinema, this novel's protagonist and subject ranks as a founding father, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu . But here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns, tragically, against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Shepard's Murnau--through the airfield of the Great War to cafes and clubs in Berlin in the twenties, and to the virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and the heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and the lover who died in the trenches.    From provincial Germany, briefly through Hollywood in its early days, to the South Seas, Nosferatu  charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human.

Author: James Schlosser, etc. Publisher: Innovation Books Year Published: 1991 ISBN: 978-1565-21009-7 Pages: 68 In Southern England during the late 19th Century, siblings Richard and Julie Rampling visit their family's long-vacant ancestral mansion, only to discover the horrible secret of the old castle: an ancient vampire who has held sway over their family and the entire Village of Rampling for centuries!    Best-selling author Anne Rice creates this graphic tale of romance and unspeakable horror--adapted into the full-color graphic album format by James Schlosser and beautifully painted by artist Colleen Doran.

Author: Faye Perozich, etc. Publisher: Rosario Tafaro Year Published: 2000 ISBN: 0-9703981-0-7 Pages: 172 Lestat is a decadent, corrupt night-dweller with a craving for human blood. Now transformed into a Dark God, he must make a journey into the heart of darkness, where he must confront his own cursed immortality and the emptiness of his soul.    Featuring the Original Essay: "Twenty-Six Years With My Beloved Immortals" by Anne Rice.

Author: Faye Perozich, etc. Publisher: Ballantine Books Year Published: 1991 ISBN: 0-345-37394-4 Pages: 404 Collected for the first time, here are the first twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of The Vampire Lestat . Evocative full-color paintings and an artul abridgment of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale.    The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face to face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through time. Where it has led him and what he has become is the heart of the tale that has captivated millions of ...

Author: Ashley Marie Witter Publisher: Yen Press Year Published: 2012 ISBN: 978-0-316-17636-1 Pages: 256 Meticulously extracted from the pages of Interview with the Vampire , Anne Rice's seminal novel, Claudia's Story relates the tale of the vampire who never should have been through the eyes of the  titular character, providing new insights into her mind and story. Lavishly illustrated by newcomer Ashley Marie Witter in her debut graphic novel, this volume will be a treasured addition to the library of any Anne Rice aficionado.

Author: Becket Publisher: Anchor Books Year Published: 2018 ISBN: 978-0-525-43472-6 Pages: 449 Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery  gathers together, from the fifteen books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, and genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual histories, all of which Rice painstakingly researched and invented during her forty-year career--to date--and through which she has enchanted and transported us. Here are concise, detailed biographies of every character, no matter how central or minor to the cosmology, from a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar.    For devoted and first-time Anne Rice readers alike, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery  will be the holy grail of lore and revelation for those who have been, and continue to be, mesmerized by the worlds within worlds of these beloved tales of the undead.

Author: Katherine Ramsland Publisher: Ballantine Books Year Published: 1993 ISBN: 0-345-37922-5 Pages: 507 Interview with the Vampire. The Vampire Lestat. The Queen of the Damned. The Tale of the Body Thief.  With her bestselling epic saga of the lives and loves of a dynasty of the undead, Anne Rice has reinvented, and changed forever, the legend and literature of one of fiction's most popular and captivating archetypes. Now, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice's biographer, has created the ultimate guide to the world, the history, and the adventures of the unforgettable Lestat and his kind.    Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice, The Vampire Companion  offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the four volumes of The Vampire Chronicles . Everything that readers might want to explore further is annotated and analyzed in this entertaining and enlightening work:...

Series: New Tales of the Vampires Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1999 ISBN: 0-676-97186-5 Pages: 292 With Pandora , Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.    Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.    In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. ...

Series: New Tales of the Vampires (#1) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 1998 ISBN: 0-375-40159-8 Pages: 353 Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.    The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.    Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovi...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#13) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2018 ISBN: 978-1-5247-3264-6 Pages: 255 The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part suspense--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion, as he tells of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle a menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld.    In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one came to be.    The tale spills from Lestat's hear...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#12) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2016 ISBN: 978-1-5247-3253-0 Pages: 451 From Anne Rice, conjurer of beloved best-selling metaphysical tales, creator of mythologies and mystical ancient histories--an ambitious and rich new vampire novel of utopian vision, daring, and power.    At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange other-wordly form that has somehow taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.    It is through this spirit, considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times: a mysterious heaven on earth s...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#11) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-307-96252-2 Pages: 458 From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire universe beginning with the now iconic Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat,  and The Queen of the Damned --a stunning departure, a surprising novel that deepens Rice's vampire mythology and gives us a chillingly hypnotic, rich mystery-thriller.    In Prince Lestat , the long-awaited return to the all-encompassing realm of the Vampire Chronicles, Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit world of the oldest and most powerful forces between Heaven and Earth, including the indomitable and invisible Amel, whose thirst for human blood gave birth to the horror of the immortal Undead. Rice picks up where she left off more than a quarter of a century ago with the uniquely seductive The Queen of the Damned  and The Vampire Lestat  to...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#10) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2003 ISBN: 0-375-41200-X Pages: 305 Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles with the story of Lestat's passionate quest for redemption, goodness and the love of Rowan Mayfair.    Here are all the brilliantly conceived principal characters that make up Anne Rice's world of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to Blackwood Farm to die and is, instead, brought into the realm of the undead... Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat... her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife... Patsy, country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood.    And here is the spirit of Julien Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to torment Lestat eternally for what he has done to ...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#9) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2002 ISBN: 0-375-41199-2 Pages: 530 In her new novel, Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative--her vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches--to give us a world of classic Deep South luxury and ancestral secrets.    Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip on the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, a spirit known as Goblin, a spirit from a dreamworld that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.    As the novel moves backward and forward in time, from Quinn's boyho...

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#8) Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year Published: 2001 ISBN: 0-679-45449-7 Pages: 471 The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns.    The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet intimate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.    Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a "blood god" by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides.    We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through hi we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.   ...

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...