Lestat, the vampire-hero, enchanter and seducer of mortals, speaks in the new book in the bestselling Vampire Chronicles that began with Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the dark universe of the living dead. But now he is alone, and everything he has come to believe in is called into question. Soon he will embark on the most dangerous ...

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. ...

"Eerily vibrant. . . . The title character is a highborn woman of Augustan Rome who later names herself after the Pandora of mythology, opening her own box of surprises. Sitting in a modern-day Paris cafe in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the vampire Pandora accepts the challenge of recounting her history and immediately sets to work, filling the blank pages of an elegant leatherbound notebook. . . . A wealth of narrative twists and period ...

After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night.<BR>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 evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep. ...

Der sechzehnjährige Vittorio de Riniari wächst als Sohn einer Adelsfamilie im Florenz von Cosimo de' Medici auf und genießt das höfische Leben in vollen Zügen - bis eines Nachts ein schrecklicher Albtraum über ihn und seine Familie hereinbricht. Eine Heerschar von Dämonen überfällt die Burg und löscht in einem barbarischen Blutbad die gesamte Familie aus. Einzig Vittorio, der das Interesse der Vampirin Ursula geweckt hat, wird verschont. Zum ...

David Talbot, der Chronist der Vampire, trifft im Paris der Gegenwart Pandora und bittet die, die Geschichte ihrer Jugend und ihrer Initiation in die Welt der Vampire niederzuschreiben. Pandora, die zweitausend Jahre alte Vampirin, kehrt also in der Erinnerung nach Rom zur Zeit ihrer Geburt zurück.
Kaiser Augustus ist Herrscher über das Weltreich, auf dem Gipfel seiner Blüte und Macht. Pandora, Tochter einer kultivierten Oberschichtsfamilie, ...

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print <BR>* About Large Print<BR>All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface <P>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 ...

Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo are brought together in this latest piece of gothic fiction from Anne Rice, where )The Vampire Chronicles( and )The Tales Of The Mayfair Witches( meet. Following on from )The Vampire Armand(, this is the next in the series, and looks set to have a similar degree of commercial success.
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"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."<BR>--New York Daily News <BR>"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."<BR>--Rolling Stone <BR>"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."<BR>--USA Today ...

Blut ist Lestats Leidenschaft. Seit der berühmte Vampir jedoch die fromme Dora kennt, ist alles anders: Er will nicht ihr Blut, sondern ihre Liebe. Aber andere Versuchungen lauern im verschneiten New York des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der hinterlistige Memnoch kommt ihm in die Quere, der Teufel höchstpersönlich. Und der verspricht Lestat Himmel und Hölle und bittet ihn, die Welt vor Gott zu retten. Lestat muß sich entscheiden, welchem Herren er künftig ...