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On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and
fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour
begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding
storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for
us a great dynasty of witches - a family give4n to poetry and
incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is
itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. A
hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries,
The Witching Hour could only have been written by the spellbinding
bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and
chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and
astonishing force-a story of danger and flight, of love and loss,
of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the
senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Praise for "Interview with the Vampire"
"A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins
where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and
penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth-the
education of the vampire."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always
unforgettable."--"Washington Post"
"If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to
enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream."--"Boston Globe"
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"A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening,
sensuous, and utterly unnerving."--"Hartford Courant"
"From the Paperback edition."
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this
sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most
successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times)
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie
story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal
life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. When
Interview with the Vampire was published the Washington Post said
it was a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination .
. . sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'.
Now, more than forty years since its release, Anne Rice's
masterpiece is more beloved than ever. ***The Vampire Chronicles is
soon to be a major TV show*** Also in the Vampire Chronicles: The
Vampire Lestat The Queen of the Damned
In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat. In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, 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, worshipped 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 make "all 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 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 enptied, 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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.... "Magnificent, compulsively readable." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
***The Vampire Chronicles is soon to be a major TV show*** After
6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akasha, mother of all vampires
and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the
powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds
of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys
mankind, and it falls to the vampire Lestat to fight her
all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by
waking her from sleep. Also in the Vampire Chronicles: Interview
with the Vampire The Vampire Lestat The Queen of the Damned
The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of
Sleeping Beauty, from the author of Beauty's Kingdom. This sequel
to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's
(writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica,
continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of
human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden
infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away
from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she
will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village,"
as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and
tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the
Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain
dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the
human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James' Fifty
Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more
haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment in the
Sleeping Beauty series is not to be missed.
"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News
"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife." --Rolling Stone
"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED." --USA Today
"Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this." --The Washington Post Book World
"MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE." --Playboy
"[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form." --The Seattle Times
"A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem." THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....
"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE." --San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera." --The Washington Post Book World "AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller." --Cosmopolitan "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice." --The Wall Street Journal
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. "Frightening, sensual." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding stoyrtelling, Anne Rice makes real a family of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philsophy, a family that is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. "Unfolds like a poisonous lotus blossom redolent with luxurious evil." THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING
DEAD '[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took
that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant'
Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes '[Rice
wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell,
bestselling author of The Hungry Moon "In my dreams, I saw a city
fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames
that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..."
Lestat de Lioncourt is no longer alone. A strange, otherworldly
spirit has resurfaced, taking possession of his body and soul.
All-seeing, all-knowing, its voice whispers in his ear, telling the
hypnotic tale of Atlantis, the great sea power of ancient times...
Prince Lestat is seduced by the power of this ancient spirit, but
is he right to trust it? Why has Lestat, leader of the vampires,
been chosen as its bodily host? And what of Atlantis, the
mysterious heaven on earth? Why must the vampires reckon so many
millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless,
all-powerful Atalantaya spirit? It falls to Lestat to discover the
truth. 'There's little doubt about the paperback that will be
selling like hotcakes this month. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
saga continues.' - SFX 'Linguistically masterful, structurally
solid and weaved like a gossamer web of nightwalker excellence.
Anne Rice further solidifies her undisputed reputation for penning
novels of dark poetry, where Lestat lives and breathes in all his
benevolence. Pompous, preening, princely and beyond earthly
reproach. For the uninitiated and experienced traveller alike this
continuation of The Vampire Chronicles makes a mockery of any
shared cinematic universe you can name.' - Flickering Myth 'Anne
Rice's prose has always been lyrical and poetic, the words ebbing
and flowing from page to page, calmly and rhythmically. In this
latest edition, she proposes some ethical and spiritual quandaries
from both sides of the sets of characters.' - On: Magazine
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. "Frightening, sensual." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
From the Paperback edition.
The time is now.
We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .
He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures.
He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .
We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .
We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .
We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .
In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.
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In the grand manner of Interview with the vampire, Anne Rice's new
novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century
Vienna to a St. Charles Greek revival mansion in present-day New
Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a
story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a
passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction,
and liberation.
In another 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 undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.
The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
From the Hardcover edition.
A richly-illustrated graphic novel adaptation of Anne Rice's
"Interview with the Vampire," told through the eyes of the vampire
Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the
vampire Lestat. Though she spends many years of happiness with her
two vampire fathers, she gradually grows discontent with their
insistence upon treating her like a little girl, even though she
has lived as long as any mortal man...and her lust to kill is
certainly no less than theirs...
"A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there's good news on the last page: 'The chronicle of the vampires will continue.' Yum." PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER A feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.
In her new novel, perennial bestseller 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, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world 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 doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.
From the Hardcover edition.
Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 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 years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.
As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors. We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.
We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent. We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.
But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule. And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed. Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat's vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.
Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark
corners of America's most unique city. In addition to detailed
histories of bizarre burials, ghastly murders, and the greatest
concentration of haunted places in America, Fear Dat features a
"bone watcher's guide" with useful directions of who's buried
where, from Marie Laveau to Ruthie the Duck Girl. You'll also find
where to buy the most authentic gris-gris or to get the best
psychic reading. The Huffington Post tagged Michael Murphy's first
book Eat Dat, about the city's food culture, the #1 "essential"
book to read before coming to New Orleans. New Orleans Living
called it "both reverent and irreverent, he manages to bring a
sense of humor to serious eating-and that's what New Orleans is all
about." In Fear Dat, Murphy brings similar insights and irreverence
to New Orleans voodoo, vampires, graveyards, and ghosts.
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