Wynken de Wilde is a sixteenth-century writer and illustrator who creates books that are both mystically devotional to belief in God and Christ and fundamentally heretical to Christendom’s basic teachings on morality.
Lestat becomes aware of Wynken de Wilde’s writings through one of his victims, Roger, who not only is a wealthy murderer, smuggler, and drug dealer but also, having been raised with a Jesuit education in New Orleans, one of the only translators of Wynken de Wilde’s works into modern English. After dying, Roger returns to Lestat as a ghost and begs him not to let his translations of Wilde’s works perish but to preserve them so that Wilde might inform a new generation of hopeful mystics.
Wynken de Wilde appears in Memnoch the Devil (1995). For more perspectives on Wynken de Wilde in the Vampire Chronicles, read the Alphabettery entries Lestat de Lioncourt and Roger.