[The Vampire Chronicles 02] • Vampire Lestat

#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