Anne Rice · novel-series
The Vampire Chronicles books in order
A thirteen-volume chronicle of vampires, centered principally on Lestat de Lioncourt.
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- 1 Interview with the Vampire
Book 1 · novel · 1976
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. Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic,…
- 2 The Vampire Lestat
Book 2 · novel · 1985
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…
- 3 The Queen of the Damned
Book 3 · novel · 1988
The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines. The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampires will be among the fans that night…
- 4 The Tale of the Body Thief
Book 4 · novel · 1992
Returning to Lestat as the main character, the fourth in the Vampire Chronicles series finds Lestat impulsive and careless in the pursuit of what he wants: a serial killer in Southern Florida. Lestat is surrounded by mortals in this tale,…
- 5 Memnoch the Devil
Book 5 · novel · 1995
"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…
- 6 The Vampire Armand
Book 6 · novel · 1998
The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of…
- 7 Merrick
Book 7 · novel · 2000
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…
- 8 Blood and Gold: The Story of Marius
Book 8 · novel · 2001
The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a must for all readers of The Vampire Armand.Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest…
- 9 Blackwood Farm
Book 9 · novel · 2002
Publication to coincide with new Vampire Chronicle BLOOD CANTICLE in hardback.Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal,…
- 10 Blood Canticle
Book 10 · novel · 2003
"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…
- 11 Prince Lestat
Book 11 · novel · 2014
"The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis ... vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned ... Old…
- 12 Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Book 12 · novel · 2016
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…
- 13 Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat
Book 13 · novel · 2018
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…
