Anne Rice

An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles gathers together, from all fifteen of the books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual histories, all of which Rice painstakingly researched and invented during her 40-year career-to date-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. Revealed are the intricacies and interconnectedness of characters and subjects throughout. We see how Akasha (Queen of Egypt and the first vampire) is connected to Mekare (the inheritor of the title of the Queen of the Damned), etc., and how these characters connect back to the darkest rebel outlaw of them all, Lestat de Lioncourta And we see, as well, the ways in which Rice's vampires have evolved from warring civilizations to isolated covens to a unified race of blood drinkers led by their hero-wanderer and sole monarch, Prince Lestat. For devoted and first-time Anne Rice readers alike, An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles 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.

When reporter Reuben Golding arrives at a secluded mansion at the request of the home's mysterious female owner, he doesn't expect this assignment will lead to him being inexplicably attacked-bitten-by a beast shadowed in darkness. This single event prompts a terrifying but seductive transformation that both opens Reuben's eyes to what was previously unseen and unknown, and leads to even more questions. Why was he given this wolf gift? Is its nature good or evil? And is he now all alone in this mysterious new world?

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 beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula--setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. Against a backdrop of the wonders--both sacred and profane--and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Rennaisance Italy, with it's art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice introduces a seductive new character and creates a passionate traggic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

For the first time, the complete Mayfair Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice are collected together in a stylish three-book set--the inspiration for the hit television series. In this mesmerizing series, Anne Rice demonstrates her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend: The Witching Hour: A hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult that introduces a great dynasty of witches--a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. Lasher: The beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. Taltos When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers.

The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary Anne Rice, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war. A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his tomb. Now, with the outbreak of a world war looming, Ramses and those immortals brought forth from the mists of history by his resurrection will face their greatest test yet. Russian assassins bearing weapons of incredible power have assembled under one command: all those who loved Lawrence Stratford must die. From the glowing jewels at their necks comes an incredible power: the power to bring statues to life. As Ramses and his allies, including the immortal queens Cleopatra and Bektaten, gather together to battle these threats, Ramses reveals that the great weapon may have roots in an ancient Egyptian ritual designed to render pharaohs humble before Osiris, the god of the underworld. The resulting journey will take them across storm-tossed seas and into the forests of northern Russia, where they will confront a terrifying collision of tortured political ambitions and religious fervor held in thrall to a Godlike power. But the true answers they seek will lie beyond the border between life and death, within realms that defy the imagination of even an immortal such as Ramses the Great. In Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris, Anne Rice, revered and beloved storyteller (queen of gothic lit, the maestro of the monstrous and the diva of the devious --The Philadelphia Inquirer), in collaboration with her son, acclaimed bestselling novelist Christopher Rice (a magician; a master --Peter Straub), bring us another thrilling, seductive tale of high adventure, romance, history, and suspense. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.

En esta segunda entrega de las «Cr nicas Vamp ricas descubrimos la vida del enigm tico Lestat, a quien conocimos en Entrevista con el vampiro. Inmortal y sediento de sangre humana, Lestat ans a descubrir el secreto de su inmortalidad. Eso le llevar a recorrer un variado espectro de lugares y entornos sociales que hace de la suya una apasionante biograf a: desde el lascivo Par s del siglo XVIII hasta la Roma de Augusto y la Breta a de los druidas; desde el Egipto sat nico de la prehistoria hasta el mundo fren tico de las estrellas del rock... pr cticamente toda la historia. «Soy el vampiro Lestat. Soy inmortal. M s o menos. La luz del sol, el calor prolongado de un fuego intenso..., tales cosas podr an acabar conmigo. Pero tambi n podr an no hacerlo. Cuando estoy sediento de sangre, mi aspecto produce verdadero horror: la piel contra da, las venas como sogas sobre los contornos de mis huesos... Pero ya no permito que tal cosa suceda, y el nico indicio de que no soy humano son las u as de los dedos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story--passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat "Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away."--San Francisco Chronicle "Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires."--The Village Voice "Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive."--The New York Times Book Review "Luxuriantly created and richly told."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

La mejor historia de vampiros jam s escrita, despu s de Dr cula. Un Cl sico indiscutible de la fantas a oscura. El tiempo es ahora. Estamos en una peque a habitaci n con el vampiro, cara a cara, mientras habla, mientras derrama las confesiones hipn ticas, impactantes, conmovedoras y cargadas de erotismo de sus primeros doscientos a os como uno de los muertos vivientes. . . Habla en voz baja, llanamente, incluso gentilmente. . . llev ndonos de regreso a la noche en que dej la existencia humana como heredero - joven, rom ntico, cultivado - de una gran plantaci n de Luisiana, y fue inducido por el radiante y siniestro Lestat a la otra vida, la "interminable". . . aprendiendo primero a alimentarse de la sangre de gallos y ratas atrapados en las callejeras de Nueva Orleans, luego de la sangre de seres humanos. . . a los a os en que, alej ndose de sus ltimos lazos humanos bajo la tutela del odiado pero necesario Lestat, abraz paulatinamente los h bitos, los apetitos, los sentimientos del vampirismo: el desapego, la voluntad endurecida, los placeres sensuales "superiores". Nos lleva de regreso al momento crucial en una calle oscura de Nueva Orleans cuando encuentra a la exquisita ni a perdida Claudia, que no quiere lastimarla sino consolarla, luchando contra el ltimo residuo de sentimiento humano dentro de l. . . Vemos c mo Claudia a su vez se convierte en vampiro -toda su pasi n e inteligencia atrapadas para siempre en el cuerpo de un ni o peque o- y c mo llegan a su alianza apasionada y peligrosa, su vida de opulencia en el Barrio Franc s: delicadas estatuas griegas, Jarrones chinos, candelabros de cristal, un mayordomo, una criada, una ninfa de piedra en el patio del jard n escondido. . . la noche se convierte en noche con sus sentidos vamp ricos intensificados ante la belleza del mundo, sedientos de la belleza de la muerte: un flujo constante de extra os vulnerables esper ndolos abajo. . . Los vemos unidos contra el envidioso y peligroso Lestat, embarc ndose en una peligrosa b squeda por Europa de otros como ellos, desesperados por descubrir el mundo al que pertenecen, las formas de supervivencia, saber qu son y por qu , de d nde vienen. cu l puede ser su futuro. . . Los seguimos por Austria y Transilvania, encontr ndonos con los de su especie en formas m s all de su imaginaci n m s salvaje. . . a Par s, donde los pasos detr s de ellos, al ritmo exacto de los suyos, los conducen hasta las puertas del Th tre des Vampires, el bello, lascivo y febril teatro de m mica cuyos carteles de vampiros horribles enmascaran y revelan a la vez el horror dentro . . . a su encuentro con el inquietantemente magn tico Armand, quien los lleva, por fin, a la intimidad con toda una brillante y decadente sociedad de vampiros, una intimidad que se convierte en terror repentino cuando se ven obligados a enfrentarse a lo que temieron y huyeron. . . En su flujo incesante de narraciones fascinantes, de peligro y huida, de lealtad y traici n, Entrevista con el vampiro da testimonio de una imaginaci n literaria de primer orden. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 Th tre 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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be. Lestat takes us from his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana, with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific's untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine. He speaks of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha, who refuses to live in harmony at court and who threatens all Lestat has dreamt of....

Den stenrige Mayfair-klan fra New Orleans har i århundreder haft tæt kontakt til overnaturlige væsner. Nu hører familiens overhoved, Rowan Mayfair, rygter om, at man i Skotland har set en taltos – et menneskelignende væsen, som kan formere sig hurtigt og leve i hundreder af år og dermed uddistancere menneskeheden.Rowan rejser til Skotland for at undersøge sagen nærmere. Her møder hun Ash, en meget rig amerikansk dukkefabrikant, som hidtil har hemmeligholdt, at han er en taltos, fordi han ikke har kunnet finde en kvindelig artsfælle til at føre slægten videre.Efter hjemkomsten til USA opsøger Ash Rowan i New Orleans, men deres venskab besværliggøres af, at hun ikke tør bringe menneskeheden i fare ved at fortælle ham, at der i Mayfair-klanen netop er født en kvindelig taltos."... hvis man kan lide historier om vampyrer og andre, hvis bud på alternativ livsstil er højst radikal, så er der næppe nogen tvivl om, at Anne Rice kan levere den ønskede kvalitetsstemplede vare." – Lars Ole Sauerberg, Jyllands-Posten"Anne Rice er en uovertruffen mytemager i denne klassiker, der hensætter læseren i en tilstand, hvor man ikke rigtig ved, om man skal føles sig voldtaget eller bjergtaget. Det er nok begge dele." – Mette Strømfeldt, B.T. Hver generation har sin heks. Sådan er det i hvert fald for Mayfair-familien fra New Orleans. Den amerikanske forfatter Anne Rices heksetrilogi består af bøgerne "Heksetimen", "Lasher" og "Taltos". Den amerikanske bestsellerforfatter Anne Rice (f. 1941) skriver gyser- og fantasyromaner, der ofte har vampyrer, hekse og mumier i hovedrollerne. Bedst kendt er hun for debutromanen "En vampyrs bekendelser" fra 1976, der blev filmatiseret i 1994 med Tom Cruise og Brad Pitt i hovedrollerne. En stor del af hendes romaner foregår i New Orleans, hvor hun selv er født og har boet det meste af sit liv. Hendes arbejde har desuden haft en betydelig indflydelse på ungdomsundergrundskulturen Goth.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be. Lestat takes us from his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana, with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific's untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine. He speaks of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha, who refuses to live in harmony at court and who threatens all Lestat has dreamt of....

Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality--and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this ambitious, rich vampire novel of vision and power, the indomitable vampire hero, Lestat de Lioncourt, returns ... caught up in an urgent and fundamental quest to understand the origins of the Undead and the deeper meanings of existence for both mortals and immortals. "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea . . . And all the world was shaken . . ." Now Lestat, Prince of the vast tribe of the undead, finds himself at war with a strange, ancient, otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of his immortal body and spirit, and it is through this perilous and profound struggle that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times: a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent in the Atlantic Ocean. As we learn of the mighty, resonant powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit. An exhilarating novel that deepens Rice's vampire mythology as it brings together the ancient worlds and beings of the Vampire Chronicles and opens up to us a whole new universe of characters, history, storytelling, and legend.