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The Queen of the Damned

A Novel

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

By Anne Rice
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By Anne Rice
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By Anne Rice
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By Anne Rice
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Nov 29, 1997 | ISBN 9780345419620

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Sep 13, 1989 | ISBN 9780345351524

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    About The Queen of the Damned

    “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times

    In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.

    Praise for The Queen of the Damned

    “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle
      
    “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today
     
    “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

    About The Queen of the Damned

    In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.
     
    Praise for The Queen of the Damned
     
    “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times
     
    “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today
     
    “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

    About The Queen of the Damned

    “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times

    In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.

    Praise for The Queen of the Damned

    “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle
      
    “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today
     
    “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

    About The Queen of the Damned

    In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.
     
    Praise for The Queen of the Damned
     
    “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times
     
    “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today
     
    “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

    About The Queen of the Damned

    In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire … in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat. Anne Rice continues her extraordinary Vampire Chronicles in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.

    Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:

    – The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience–pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration–are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a “greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,” fiends themselves who hate Lestat’s power and who are determined to destroy him . . .

    – The sleep of certain men and women–vampires and mortals scattered around the world–is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other–some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey’s end . . .

    – Akasha–Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to “save” mankind from itself and make “all myths of the world real” by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: “I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause” . . .

    These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the “first brood” of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created–mortals succumbing to the sensation of “being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing.” Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed–the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead–and perhaps of the living, all the living–will be decided.

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    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

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    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    About Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She… More about Anne Rice

    Product Details

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Paperback | $18.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Nov 29, 1997 | 480 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780345419620

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Mass Market Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Sep 13, 1989 | 512 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780345351524

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Nov 17, 2010 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780307575890

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $24.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 31, 2011 | 1203 Minutes | ISBN 9780307914095

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jul 04, 2000 | 180 Minutes | ISBN 9780375418280
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    Praise

    “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times
     
    “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today
     
    “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

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