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Anne Rice

Her real name is Howard Allen O'Brien. She changed it to "Anne" when she started school, and sometimes it seems that Anne Rice has been reinventing herself ever since. With her hypnotic tales of vampires and witches and all the things your parents told you did not exist, Rice has built an adoring readership that cannot get enough of her tales, whether she is writing as A.N. Roquelaure, Anne Rampling, or as Anne Rice.

Rice's life story is tinged with tragedy. She lost her mother when she was 15. Later in life, she lost a daughter to leukemia, and almost destroyed herself with alcohol, like her mother before her. Rice married young, right out of high school, to poet Stan Rice. They attended college together in San Francisco. After her daughter Michelle died at the age of eight, Rice's grief led her straight to the bottle. But then, to help herself through the pain, she began to spin a dark tale of vampires and everlasting life. One of the characters in the book, Claudia, was modeled on the author's dead child. The book was Interview with the Vampire, a publishing sensation.

The author has no difficulty playing to her audience. She once showed up at a book signing in a coffin, and she regularly uses her own properties as settings in her stories. Rice is remarkable for her accessibility, regularly answering fans' questions on the Internet. But she says she rarely goes out and usually only sees her readers at scheduled book signings.

Timeline

Contributed By Laurie M. Salopek

1941 - Howard Allen O'Brien (Anne Rice) is born on October 4 in New Orleans

1957 - Her family moves from New Orleans to Richardson, Texas. There she meets her husband -to-be, Stan Rice, in high school.

1959 - Anne graduates from High School

1961 - She marries Stan Rice

1964 - The Rices move to San Francisco, at the height of the hippie movement.

1966 - Michele is born.

1969 - The Rices move to Berkeley.

1972 - Michele dies of leukemia before her sixth birthday

1973 - Anne writes 'Interview With The Vampire'. The book is written in 5 weeks.

1974 - Anne meets literary agent Phyllis Seidel at a writer's conference; Seidel subsequently sells the novel to Knopf.

1976 - The novel is published to mixed reviews.

1978 - Christopher is born.

1979 - 'The Feast of All Saints' is published.

1982 - 'Cry to Heaven' is published and her short story, 'Master of Rampling Gate,' is published in Redbook magazine.

1983 - 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, is published under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure

1984 - 'Beauty's Punishment,' is published under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure

1985 - 'Exit to Eden,' is published under the pen name Anne Rampling. 'Beauty's Release,' is published under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure 'The Vampire Lestat,' is published.

1986 - 'Belinda,' is published under the pen name Anne Rampling.

1988 - 'The Queen of the Damned,' is published.

1989 - The Rices move to New Orleans. 'The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned,' is published.

1990 - 'The Witching Hour,' is published. The first book about Anne Rice, 'Prism of the Night' by Katherine Ramsland, is published.

1992 - 'The Tale of the Body Thief,' is published.

1993 - 'Lasher,' is published.

1994 - 'Taltos' is published. The motion picture, 'Exit to Eden,' is released in October. The motion picture, 'Interview With The Vampire,' is released in November.

1995 - 'Memnoch the Devil,' is published Anne Rice hosts the Memnoch Ball, under the auspices of The Vampire Lestat Fan Club.

1996 - 'The Servant of the Bones,' is published.

Anne Rice's Books

Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Feast of All Saints (1979)
Cry to Heaven (1982)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Mummy (1989)
The Witching Hour (1990)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Lasher (1993)
Taltos (1994)
Memnoch The Devil (1995)
Servant of the Bones (1996)
Violin (1997)
Pandora (1998)
Armand (1998)
Vittorio the Vampire (1999)

As Anne Rampling

Exit to Eden (1985)
Belinda (1986)

As A. N. Roquelaure

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983)
Beauty's Punishment (1984)
Beauty's Release (1985)

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Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles
	Anne Rice's the Vampire Chronicles : Interview With the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned/Audio Cassettes ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1992 Amazon.com Audiobook Review The ornate, casket-like packaging and neogothic graphic design of this immortal trilogy is eerily enticing on its own. But just lift the lid, slide the first tape from its ghostly sleeve, and you'll soon embrace the hypnotic realm of the undead. Book 1, Interview with the Vampire, opens with the seductive purr of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stating, "I was a 25-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was 1791." And so our ultimate antihero, Louis, begins the elaborate retelling of his long, tortured life as a vampire. Winding through the ages, from New Orleans to Paris, we follow Louis and his undying mentor, Lestat, as they feed on humans, whet their carnal appetites, and uncover an underworld of vampire brethren. Book 2, The Vampire Lestat, brings us up to date, with Lestat waking from his earthen slumber to join the ranks of rock superstardom before sitting down to share the tale of his own haunting initiation into the vampire world. Michael York (Cabaret) puts his wonderfully fluid, cosmopolitan voice to good use, adding a dash of sly humor to this fast-paced, satisfying blend of sex and blood and rock and roll. Book 3, The Queen of the Damned, takes us back, all the way back to ancient Egypt, exposing the origins of the vampire way. Narrating in eerily serene and gracious tones, Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) leads us gently down this bloody path of immortal desires. David Purdham gives the voice of Lestat a wistful quality, tinged with an evil relish that exposes the master vampire's sanguine tastes. Anne Rice has continued her Vampire Chronicles beyond these three novels, but that shouldn't make this collection any less tempting to either the undead initiate or certified vampire junkie. --George Laney
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
	The Vampire Lestat : A Graphic Novel ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, et al / Paperback / Published 1991 Amazon.com Anne Rice's novels appeal to many of her fans because of the lush descriptions of characters and settings. Faye Perozich and Daerick Gross do an incredible job of bringing that lush quality to this comics adaptation. Each page is fully painted by Gross in sumptuous hues with watercolor washes. There are often entire paintings behind the panels, such as blood flowing down the page or a long shot of Paris. Perozich handles her subject well--balancing and pacing multiple panels of heavy dialogue with full-page splash illustrations--especially considering how predominant the dialogue-driven scenes are in the original novel. Anne Rice gave her approval of this adaptation and said that comic books are part of reaching a popular audience. Instead of thinking of this comic book adaptation as a limit to readers' imaginations, look at it as a unique interpretation of the world of Ann Rice. Amazon.com Collected for the first time, here are the twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of The Vampire Lestat. Evocative full-color paintings and an artful abridgement of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale. Book Description Collected for the first time, here are the twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Evocative full-color paintings and an artful abridgment of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale. The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face-to-face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through time. Where it has led him and what he has become is the heart of the tale that has captured millions of readers. Synopsis Based on the bestselling novel that's become a modern classic, this bold and vivid work brings together the suspense and sensuality of one of Rice's most unforgettable stories with the hottest trend in popular fiction. True to the story and spirit of her haunting original, this full-color rendering adds a new dimension to the immortal vampire, rock superstar and cult icon known as Lestat.
Anne Rice - Beauty's Punishment
	Beauty's Punishment ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, A. N. Roquelaure / Paperback / Published 1999 Beauty's Punishment [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1994 This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.
Anne Rice - Belinda
	Belinda ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1994 Belinda/Cassettes ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Rice, et al / Audio Cassette / Published 1993 An erotic and controversial tale of seduction and obsession from the best-selling author of Exit to Eden. Belinda is the ultimate fantasy. A golden-haired object of desire, fresh and uninhibited. But to Jeremy Walker, a handsome and famous 44-year old illustrator of children's books, Belinda is a forbidden passion, both beguiling and bewitching.
Anne Rice - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
	The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, A. N. Roquelaure / Paperback / Published 1999 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1994 In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.
Anne Rice - Complete Vampire Chronicles
	Complete Vampire Chronicles : The Tale of the Body Thief, the Queen of the Damned, the Vampire Lestat, Interview With the Vampire ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993 Amazon.com Even though Anne Rice bowed to howling popular demand (and her own obsessions) and continued her Vampire Chronicles, this collection of the first four books in the series retains a satisfying sense of completeness. First up: Interview with the Vampire, in which fanged Lestat makes a fellow vampire of Louis, a despairing 18th-century Louisiana aristocrat. The scariest character is 5-year-old Claudia, who is bitter about having been made a vampire before she got a chance to grow up. Rice wrote this book in about five weeks of grief and drinking after her 5-year-old daughter died of a blood disease. The vampire's seductiveness and the lush gorgeousness of the undead world capture the allure of the boozy swoon to souls who crave numb transcendence. (Alcoholism killed Rice's mother--see Violin for the gory details.) Don't make too much of the biographical parallels, though, nor the book's appeal to a gay audience--really, it's a story for anyone who ever felt yearningly alone in a godforsaken world. Chronicle No. 2, The Vampire Lestat, expresses the decade of stardom Rice's debut precipitated. Lestat becomes a 1980s rock star and explores his vampire past in a book with an exuberant tone, compared to its predecessor. Book No. 3, The Queen of the Damned, offers Rice's most ambitiously complex plot yet, involving a scheme by the ancient Egyptian Akasha--the momma of all vampires and current holder of the title of Queen of the Damned--to kill most men and create a feminist paradise ruled by herself. But other sisterhoods can be powerful, too, as proven by Akasha's nemeses Maharet and Mekare--the Doublemint Twins they ain't. In the fourth chronicle, The Tale of the Body Thief, Lestat trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him two days of strictly mortal bliss. Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. He's also got to catch James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot (partly based on Rice's father), a wise member of the Talamasca society, a bunch of mortals who sort of bridge the supernatural and natural worlds. Body thievery adds to vampirism a new terror. --Tim Appelo
Anne Rice - Conversations With Anne Rice
	Conversations With Anne Rice ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Michael Riley, Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1996 In Conversations with Anne Rice the creator of Lestat, Louis, and Lasher talks in depth - in her own words - about everything: from her early struggles toward publication to the tremendous literary reputation she has achieved. From the success and adulation of the vampire novels to the lesser known books that are her personal favorites. From the influence of classical and popular literature to that of Catholicism and eroticism. From the role of movies in her literary vision to her definitive critique of the film version of Interview with a Vampire, and far beyond. A candid and captivating dialogue with her audience.
Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven
	Cry to Heaven ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1995 Cry to Heaven ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1991 Cry to Heaven ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1993 Cry to Heaven ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Tim Curry / Audio Cassette / Published 1995 The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half men.
Anne Rice - Exit to Eden
	Exit to Eden ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Anne Rampling / Paperback / Published 1996 Exit to Eden / Cassettes (narrated by Gillian Anderson & Gil Bellows) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rampling, Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1993 The same imagination that brought you the spellbinding sensuality of The Vampire Chronicles brings you the wickedly erotic and tantalizing tale of Lisa and Elliot's journey to the limits of pleasure and darkness at The Club, an exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. A literary romp.
Anne Rice - The Feast of All Saints
	Feast of All Saints ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1986 The Feast of All Saints ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1992 The Feast of All Saints (Price-Less Audio) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1994 Book Description In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern history. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain. Synopsis A dazzling departure from her bestselling novels of the supernatural, this evocative work of historical fiction is peopled with characters every bit as immortal (in their own way) as the mummy Ramses and the vampire Lestat. Rice's favorite novel--a classic now packaged in trade paperback for the first time--brings to vivid life 19th-century New Orleans. Synopsis Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and black oppression.
Anne Rice - Interview With Anne Rice
	Interview With Anne Rice : A Conversation Between Anne Rice and Michael Riley ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Michael Riley (Contributor) / Audio Cassette / Published 1997 Book Description 1 cassette / 90 minutes An Audio Exclusive! For the first time on audio, Anne Rice, the literary phenomenon of the late 20th century, speaks. In the novel that introduced Anne Rice to the world, Interview with the Vampire, a reporter seeks out the facts behind an extraordinary life. In the years since that publication, Anne Rice has become one of the world's bestselling authors and has herself been the subject of countless interviews, profiles, and a full-length biography. Yet who Anne Rice is, and the beliefs, fascinations, desires, fears, and passions that inspire her work, remains an endlessly fascinating topic. Now, for the first time ever in an audio format, Anne Rice discusses -- with her longtime friend, Michael Riley -- everything from her latest novels to her relationship to some of her characters; from the relationship of movies and music to her work to issues about gender, eroticism, religion, personal freedom, adolescent sexuality, and more... Synopsis A fascinating personal interview with one of the world's most popular authors--available only on audio! Here is a uniquely intimate audio book that will appeal not only to Rice's millions of fans, but to anyone who has ever wondered about the intriguing person behind Anne Rice's extraordinary body of work.
Anne Rice - Interview With The Vampire
	Interview With The Vampire ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1976 Interview With The Vampire ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1986 Interview With The Vampire ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1994 Interview With The Vampire ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, F. Murray Abraham (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published 1995 Interview With The Vampire ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 Amazon.com In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator. While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley
Anne Rice - Lasher
	Lasher ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1994 Lasher ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1993 Lasher : Lives of the Mayfair Witches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1995 Lasher [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Joe Morton / Audio Cassette / Published 1993 At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, who must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of spiritual aspiration and passion.
Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil
	Memnoch the Devil (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles, 5th Bk.) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Clare Ferraro (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996 Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1995 Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1995 Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1997 Amazon.com The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud. Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history. Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's just that her imagination ran away with her. If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo
Anne Rice - The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
	The Mummy or Ramses the Damned ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991 The Mummy or Ramses the Damned ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1989 The Mummy or Ramses the Damned ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Michael York / Audio Cassette / Published 1989 In The Mummy Anne Rice weaves the same magic for the world and history of mummies that she previously did for the worlds and mythologies of vampires and witches. Ramses the Great lives, but having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell certain mummy hungers that can never be satisfied!
Anne Rice - Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires
	Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1999 Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1998 Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires (Cassette) [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Janet McTeer (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1998 Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1998 Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Kate Reading (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1998 Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Audio CD / Published 1998 Amazon.com Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law." Pandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice's famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Roman girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates the sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical world. Pandora is more like Robert Graves's sublime I, Claudius than Rice's The Complete Vampire Chronicles. Yet Pandora is a logical extension of Rice's work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice's 1997 novel Violin. Now, Violin is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain." Pandora is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irrational!" (To hear how close Pandora's voice is to her passionate creator, listen to the 1997 audiocassette Interview with Anne Rice.) Rice's research gives fresh blood to her storytelling. Even her chronic third-act problem scarcely slows down this brisk romp of a novel. Pandora has intellectual thirst as well as blood lust, and she conveys the high old time Rice obviously had imbibing historical lore. "It is fun to read these mad Gnostics!" exults Pandora in the early Christian era. It is also fun to read this mad Pandora. Anne Rice hasn't been this fun to read in years.
Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned
	The Queen of the Damned ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993 The Queen of the Damned ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 The Queen of the Damned/Audio Cassette ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1988 Amazon.com Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned. Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well. If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo
Anne - Servant of the Bones
	Servant of the Bones ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1998 Servant of the Bones ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 Servant of the Bones ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1996 Servant of the Bones ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1996 Servant of the Bones ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Audio CD / Published 1996 Servant of the Bones (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1996 55Servant of the Bones [UNABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1996 Her first book since Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.
Anne Rice - The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
	The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy ~ Usually ships in 24 hours A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1999 A beautifully designed boxed set of erotica by the bestselling author. Rice's enormously successful "Beauty" books are based very loosely on the Sleeping Beauty tale, and explore just about every sexually explicit fantasy imaginable.
Anne Rice - The Tale of the Body Thief
	The Tale of the Body Thief ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993 The Tale of the Body Thief ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1992 The Tale of the Body Thief [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1992 Amazon.com It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned. The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo
Anne Rice - Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
	Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1995 Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1994\ Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1996 Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Tim Curry / Audio Cassette / Published 1994 In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...
Anne Rice - The Vampire Armand
	The Vampire Armand (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1998 The Vampire Armand (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles (New York, N.Y.) [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Alfred Molina (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published 1998 67Read more about this title... The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles (New York, N.Y.) [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Alfred Molina (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1998 The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles (New York, N.Y.) [UNABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Jonathan Marosz (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1998 The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1998 The Vampire Armand [LARGE PRINT] Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1999 Amazon.com In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale Interview with the Vampire (in which Armand, played by Antonio Banderas in the film version, made his first appearance as director of the Théâtre des Vampires). The story begins in the aftermath of Memnoch the Devil. Vampires from all over the globe have gathered around Lestat, who lies prostrate on the floor of a cathedral. Dead? In a coma? As Armand reflects on Lestat's condition, he is drawn by David Talbot to tell the story of his own life. The narrative abruptly rushes back to 15th-century Constantinople, and the Armand of the present recounts the fragmented memories of his childhood abduction from Kiev. Eventually, he is sold to a Venetian artist (and vampire), Marius. Rice revels in descriptions of the sensual relationship between the young and still-mortal Armand and his vampiric mentor. But when Armand is finally transformed, the tone of the book dramatically shifts. Raw and sexually explicit scenes are displaced by Armand's introspective quest for a union of his Russian Orthodox childhood, his hedonistic life with Marius, and his newly acquired immortality. These final chapters remind one of the archetypal significance of Rice's vampires; at their best, Armand, Lestat, and Marius offer keen insights into the most human of concerns. The Vampire Armand is richly intertextual; readers will relish the retelling of critical events from Lestat and Louis's narratives. Nevertheless, the novel is very much Armand's own tragic tale. Rice deftly integrates the necessary back-story for new readers to enter her epic series, and the introduction of a few new voices adds a fresh perspective--and the promise of provocative future installments. --Patrick O'Kelley
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
	The Vampire Lestat ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Michael York / Audio Cassette / Published 1989 The Vampire Lestat (Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Book) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1985 The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993 Amazon.com After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat. As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species. While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley
Anne Rice - Violin
	Violin ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1998 Violin ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1997 Violin (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 Violin [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, et al / Audio Cassette / Published 1997 Violin [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Maria Tucci (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published 1997 Violin [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice, Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1997 Violin [LARGE PRINT] Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1997 Amazon.com If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Rice, the heroine Triana lives in New Orleans, mourns a dead young daughter and a drunken mother, and is subject to uncanny visions. A violin-virtuoso ghost named Stefan time-trips and globetrots with Triana, taunting her for her inability to play his Stradivarius--which echoes composer Salieri's jealousy in Amadeus and possibly Rice's jealousy of her successful poet husband Stan Rice in the years before her own florid, lurid writing made her famous. The storytelling here is too abstract, but the almost certainly autobiographical emotions could not be more visceral. At one point, the narrator exclaims, "Shame, blame, maim, pain, vain!" But Rice's dip in the acid bath of memory was not in vain--she packs the pain of a lifetime into 289 pages.
Anne Rice - Vittorio the Vampire: New Tales of the Vampire
	Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampire [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Alan Cumming (Narrator) / Audio CD / Published 1999 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampire [ABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Alan Cumming (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1999 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampire [UNABRIDGED] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice, Jonathan Marosz (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published 1999 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1999 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Paper)) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1999 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1999 Amazon.com Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, Vittorio, is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books. Rice has called Vittorio her vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire. One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula's ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure. Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to sacrifice its young to Lord Florian's vampire horde. Vittorio is bent on revenge as he invades the eerie Court of the Ruby Grail (i.e. blood), as angry with the child-sacrificing humans as he is with Florian's fang gangsters. Torn between lust, murderous rage, and vampire thirst, Vittorio is one interestingly troubled soul. Rice urges readers to enter Vittorio's world by reading the sources she embroiders, Fra Filippo Lippi and Public Life in Renaissance Florence, and to get a feel for the scary communion Vittorio sees in the Court of the Ruby Grail by listening to All Souls' Vespers. --Tim Appelo
Anne Rice - The Witches' Companion
	The Witches' Companion : The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Katherine Ramsland, Anne Lives of the Mayfair Witches Rice / Paperback / Published 1996 In the spellbinding tradition of her bestselling The Vampire Chronicles, the prolific Anne Rice has created the sensuous saga of the Mayfair witches. Resonant with supernatural suspense, mesmerizing eroticism, and lush detail, The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos have bewitched the imaginations of readers everywhere. Now comes the definitive touchstone guide to the history and mystery of this magnificent dynasty of witches. Just as she did with The Vampire Companion, biographer and Anne Rice authority Katherine Ramsland presents a fascinating A-to-Z encyclopedia of information, interpretation, and analysis--this time devoted to the characters and key events, places and symbols, historical and mythological themes of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels. Created with the full cooperation of Anne Rice, The Witches' Companion features detailed character breakdowns, from the present-day enchantress Rowan Mayfair to the lustful spirit Lasher; a complete genealogy of the Mayfair family; a chronology of events; a guide to geographical locations; the intriguing origins of the Mayfairs' extraordinary clan; revealing observations from Anne Rice herself; and much more. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photos, drawings, and maps, The Witches' Companion will be every Anne Rice fan's inseparable companion in traveling through the unforgettable world of the Mayfair witches and their legacy.
Anne Rice - The Witching Hour
	The Witching Hour ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993 Witching Hour ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Paperback / Published 1991 Witching Hour ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days Anne Rice / Hardcover / Published 1990 The Witching Hour ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Anne Rice / Audio Cassette / Published 1990 In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being.