The Vampire Chronicles · Book 4
The Tale of the Body Thief
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 507
- ISBN-13
- 9780345903365
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Tale of the Body Thief follows The Queen of the Damned and precedes Memnoch the Devil in The Vampire Chronicles reading order, published in 1992 as Anne Rice's sprawling secret history of Lestat and the coven kept expanding.
Its place in The Vampire Chronicles
The Tale of the Body Thief is book 4 in the The Vampire Chronicles series. It follows The Queen of the Damned. It is followed by Memnoch the Devil. 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 9780345903365