The Vampire Chronicles · Book 3
The Queen of the Damned
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 491
- ISBN-13
- 9780345351524
- Type
- novel
About this book
Book 3 of The Vampire Chronicles, The Queen of the Damned appeared in 1988, sending Lestat and the coven up against the awakening of the ancient Egyptian vampire queen Akasha, sitting between The Vampire Lestat and The Tale of the Body Thief.
Its place in The Vampire Chronicles
The Queen of the Damned is book 3 in the The Vampire Chronicles series. It follows The Vampire Lestat. It is followed by The Tale of the Body Thief. See the full The Vampire Chronicles reading order.
The Vampire Chronicles is Anne Rice's era-defining vampire saga, launched by Interview with the Vampire (1976), in which the melancholy vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac recounts two centuries of immortal life to a modern-day journalist -- his making, his complicated bond with the beautiful, monstrous child-vampire Claudia, and his tangled history with the vampire who made him, the flamboyant and utterly self-mythologizing Lestat de Lioncourt. From The Vampire Lestat (1985) onward, Lestat takes over as the series'…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345351524