The second book in the Vampire Chronicles series offers a frightening, sensual...psychological, mythological sojourn (San Francisco Chronicle) into the fantastic dark realm introduced in Interview with the Vampire. n#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fictions greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles nThe vampire hero of Anne Rices 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. n nPraise for The Vampire Lestat n n 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 n nFiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.--The Village Voice n n Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.--The New York Times Book Review n nLuxuriantly created and richly told.--The Cleveland Plain Dealern