The Vampire Chronicles · Book 2
The Vampire Lestat
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 606
- ISBN-13
- 9781299013223
- Type
- novel
About this book
Book 2 of The Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat appeared in 1985, retelling and radically recontextualizing the events of Interview with the Vampire from Lestat de Lioncourt's own flamboyant, self-mythologizing point of view as he takes over the series' narration.
Its place in The Vampire Chronicles
The Vampire Lestat is book 2 in the The Vampire Chronicles series. It follows Interview with the Vampire. It is followed by The Queen of the Damned. 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 9781299013223