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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
“Unrelentingly erotic … Sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.”
—The Washington Post
“Bona fide blockbuster … Audacious, erotic, and unforgettable … An unmitigated terror trip not meant for the weak of heart … His ghastly initiation into the netherworld is as mesmeric as is the discovery he is not alone in the nightly search for warm fresh blood.”
—The Cincinnati Enquirer
“If you surrender and go with her … you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”
—The Boston Globe
“A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous and utterly unnerving.”
—The Hartford Courant
“Sensational and fantastic … Woven with uncanny magic … Hypnotically poetic in tone, rich in sensory imagery, and dense with the darkness that lies behind the veil of human thought.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A masterful suspense story … [that] plumbs the deepest recesses of human sensuality … From the beginning we are seduced, hypnotized by the voice of the vampire.”
—Chicago Tribune
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT
“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
“Here, then, is the vampire Lestat … come to dreadful and dazzling life, holding the power to haunt our imaginations and beckoning us to some sense of magic inside ourselves.… Vive Lestat!”
—The Houston Post
“A worthy successor to Interview … She may very well be this century’s Mary Shelley.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Fascinating … A novel to be savored … A rich and unforgettable tale of dazzling scenes and vivid personalities.”
—Library Journal
THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
“A wonderful web of dark-side mythology … Mesmerizing.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Exhilarating … Rice is equally adept at evoking rainswept Paris streets, concert-hall mayhem, and ramshackle mansions in New Orleans. She’s a very sensual writer.”
—Newsday
“Imaginative … Intelligently written … This is popular fiction of the highest order.”
—USA Today
“A welcome chance to catch up with old fiends … Fascinating … When we emerge from its folds, there’s good news on the last page: ‘The chronicle of the vampires will continue.’ Yum.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A tour de force.”
—The Boston Globe
BY ANNE RICE
The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire*
The Vampire Lestat*
The Queen of the Damned*
The Tale of the Body Thief*
Memnoch the Devil*
The Vampire Armand*
Blood and Gold*
Blackwood Farm*
Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Witching Hour*
Lasher*
Taltos*
A Vampire/Witches Chronicle
Merrick*
New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora*
Vittorio, The Vampire*
The Feast of All Saints*
Cry to Heaven*
The Mummy: Or Ramses the Damned*
Servant of the Bones*
Violin*
UNDER THE NAME ANNE RAMPLING:
Exit to Eden*
Belinda
EROTICA UNDER THE NAME A. N. ROQUELAURE:
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty’s Punishment
Beauty’s Release
*Published by Ballantine Books
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Interview with the Vampire copyright © 1976 by Anne O’Brien Rice
The Vampire Lestat copyright © 1985 by Anne O’Brien Rice
The Queen of the Damned copyright © 1988 by Anne O’Brien Rice
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited Toronto.
Interview with the Vampire was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1976. The Vampire Lestat was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1985. The Queen of the Damned was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1988.
Portions of The Vampire Lestat originally appeared in The Twilight