Anne Rice

//Anne Rice
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  • Book I of The Vampire Chronicles. In a  darkened room a young man tells the macabre  story of his life. It is Louis' story, told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the way of the vampire,  gifted with eternal life and cursed with the craving for human blood. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
  • Book IV in The Vampire Chronicles. Vampire hero, rock star and seducer of millions, Lestat is an immortal extraordinaire.  But he yearns to be reborn as a mortal.  Tormented, he wanders aimlessly across the world until he meets the one being who can grant him his wish - the Body Thief, more sinister and evil than any demon.  But when Lestat surrenders his vampire body he discovers he forgot so long ago - the awkwardness and anguish of being human.
  • Book V of The Vampire Chronicles. Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and wants something from him. While torn betwen his vampire world and his passion for Dora, Lestat is sucked in by Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil himself. Memnoch presents Lestat with unimagined opportunities: to witness creation, to visit purgatory, to be treated like a prophet. Lestat faces a choice between the Devil or God. Whom does he believe in? Who does he serve? What are the element of religious belief? Lestat finds himself caught in a whirlpool of the ultimate choice.
  • Book VI of The Vampire Chronicles. Eternally young and angelic in looks, the Vampire Armand returns to New Orleans where the Vampire Lestat sleeps. Armand tells his tale and recalls the brutality, magnificent decadence and devil worship of his past, from a half forgotten childhood in Russia to slavery in Constantinople: from Renaissance Venice where he is saved from death by the dark gift of Marius, the greatest Vampire of them all, to nineteenth century Paris, where he is the leader of the Theatre des Vampires.  Now, in New Orleans, Armand is forced to make a decision - he must choose between the existence of twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.
  • Book II  of New Tales Of the Vampires: Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.
  • Book III of The Mayfair Witches. The Mayfair Witches face a new threat - the Taltos, the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries, the race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.  Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashler who has done and suffered much wrong over the centuries.  Now a frantic chase speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York. from New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, to their ultimate fate. Cover art by Janette Earney.

  • Book X of The Vampire Chronicles. Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the cast of characters: Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.
  • Book III of Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The Mayfair Witches face a new threat - the Taltos, the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries, the race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.  Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashler who has done and suffered much wrong over the centuries.  Now a frantic chase speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York. from New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, to their ultimate fate. Cover art by Gislebertus.
  • Born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon of a wealthy Jewish family in exile, Azriel is forced to take the role of a god for three days, paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death, half-life, caught forever between heaven and earth. His restless spirit may be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones and understands its mystery.  From the household of an ancient Greek philosopher to the deathbed of Alexander the Great, from the Mongolian steppes to a pogrom in  14th century Strasbourg, where the Jews were made the scapegoats for the Black Death... Azriel bears witness to it all. In the present he is summoned to witness and avenge a brutal murder on Fifth Avenue.  The dead women is Esther, step-daughter of the fanatical Gregory Belkin, messianic leader of a worldwide cult, The Temple of the Mind. The world knows that Belkin is a Holocaust survivor, but he has a secret history that binds Azriel's fate to his. Swayed by instincts almost forgotten, Azriel is caught up in a malevolent plot which could destabilise the world. Cover photo by Colin Thomas.