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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
***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
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.
"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....
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
Before E. L. James and Sylvia Day, there was Anne Rice: Discover
Beauty's Kingdom, the fourth novel in the bestselling Sleeping
Beauty series Mega-bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A. N.
Roquelaure, returns to the mysterious kingdom of Queen Eleanor in
this new chapter of her Sleeping Beauty series. When the great
queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom
they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees to take the throne,
but she insists that all erotic servitude be voluntary. Countless
eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and commoners journey to
Beauty's realm, where she and her husband usher in a new era of
desire, longing, and ecstasy. Provocative and stirring, Rice's
imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth will be adored by
her longtime fans and new readers of erotica just discovering the
novels. This book is intended for mature audiences.
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
In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.
"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
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
"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
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.
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.
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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.
"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.. Moving in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in.
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...
Before E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to
You, there was Anne Rice's New York Times best seller The Claiming
of Sleeping Beauty In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping
Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone
in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an
ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply
disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the first book of the series,
Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom), writing as A.N. Roquelaure,
retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of
this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection
to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss,
but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years
of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him .
. . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy
in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling
experience. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice's
deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic
for years to come. "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably
pornographic." -Playboy"Something very special . . . at once so
light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate
“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” –People
Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .
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.
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