Prince Lestat The Vampire Chronicles [Paperback]

THE VAMPIRE WORLD IS IN CRISIS . . .
 
Old vampires, roused from deep slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn their kin in cities across the globe, from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to San Francisco. Left with little time to spare, a host of familiar characters including Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand, and even the vampire Lestat, must embark on a journey to discover who—or what—is driving this mysterious being.

Bloody marvelous. —Time

“Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed.” —The Washington Post 

 “Reminds us just how immense and rich . . . Rice’s universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is.” —Elle
 
“Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.” —BookPage

“Good, old-fashioned fanged fun.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The thinking-person’s vampire story. . . . Reads like a house on fire.” —Bookreporter

“No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible.”—Januarymagazine
 
“Irrepressively seductive.”—Nextmagazine

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-two books. She lives in Palm Desert, California.
 
www.annerice.comThe Voice

Years ago, I heard him. He’d been babbling.

It was after Queen Akasha had been destroyed and the mute red-­haired twin, Mekare, had become “the Queen of the Damned.” I’d witnessed all that—­the brutal death of Akasha in the moment when we all thought we would die, too, along with her.

It was after I’d switched bodies with a molc(