, 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. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time.”Īkasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. UNSIGNEDIn 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. Anne Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth–the education of the vampire.” “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller.

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The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice