Tato sága sleduje nesmrtelný život a zmatené morální dilema aristokrata proměněného v upíra v 18. století. Ponořte se do jeho dlouhé historie, plné vášní, zrad a hledání smyslu existence ve světě, který se neustále mění. Série nabízí introspektivní pohled na nadpřirozeno, zkoumá témata nesmrtelnosti, identity a věčného boje mezi dobrem a zlem.
Kultovní román, kterým to všechno začalo... Louisovi je dvě stě let. Ze života okusil všechno kromě smrti. Ta je mu jako upírovi zapovězena. Ale temné hříchy černé duše ho tlačí natolik, že se zpovídá mladému reportérovi, který nebezpečně propadá jeho omamnému kouzlu. Filmoví nadšenci si jistě vzpomenou na stejnojmennou adaptaci, ve které hlavní role ztvárnili Brad Pitt a Tom Cruise...
Lestat je upír, nikoli však obvyklá nemrtvá-neživá bytost. Je temperamentní, výstřední a živý v tom nejlepším slova smyslu. Střemhlavě se řítí v čase ze smyslného prostředí Paříže osmnáctého století do doby vlády římského císaře Augusta, ze starověkého Egypta plného démonů do New Orleansu před koncem devatenáctého století, z Galie zabydlené potomky Keltů a jejich kněžími - druidy, do frenetického světa rockových superhvězd ve dvacátém století. Lestat - pronásledován jak smrtelníky, tak nesmrtelnými - se snaží ve světě dobrat smyslu své existence a skrze čas se mu podaří dobrat se tajemství vlastní temné nesmrtelnosti.
In "The Queen of the Damned," Anne Rice introduces Akasha, the resurrected queen of the damned, who seeks to "save" humanity while plotting to destroy the vampire Lestat. This sensual tale weaves a rich tapestry of dark mythology, taking readers from ancient Egypt to modern-day Florida, showcasing Rice's masterful storytelling.
In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice. "From the Hardcover edition."
In This Stunning, Terrifying New Novel From The Phenomenally Successful Anne Rice, Lestat, Her Vampire Hero, Makes A Faustian Pact With Memnoch, The Fallen Angel And Devil. When The Novel Opens, Lestat Is Being Stalked Through The Squalor And Opulence Of New Orleans, Sensing For The First Time What It Must Be Like To Be One Of His Own Victims. The Dramatic Plot Hurtles Through Space And Time From The New Orleans Underworld In The 1990S To The First Century Ad, The Fourth Crusade, And An Apocalyptic Denouement In Hell. Lestat Brings Back The Shroud Imprinted With The Face Of Christ, And Is Saved From Damnation Only By Will Of Dora, The Saintly Nun Whose Blood He Desires But Whom He Could Not Bring Himself To Harm. Blind In One Eye, And Weak, He Returns To Earth And The Present As A Captive Of His Own Kind And Dora'S Charge, Uncertain Whether He Will Ever Be Able To Kill Again. . . .
Příběh upíra - Armanda - věčně mladého upíra s tváří Botticeliho anděla. Armand, nyní prochází napříč staletími do Kyjevské Rusi (jeho dětství) - zničeného města pod nadvládou Mongolů - a do starověké Konstantinopole, kde ho tatarští nájezdníci prodají do otroctví. A v nádherném paláci renesančních Benátek ho nalézáme citově a intelektuálně vázaného na velkého upíra Maria, který se mezi lidmi vydává za záhadného, samotářského malíře a obdaří Armanda darem upírské krve. Jak se román žene k vyvrcholení, pohybuje se mezi přepychovými a elegantními scénami, mezi bojem, požáty a uctívání ďábla v Paříži 19. století stejně jako v dnešním New Orleansu, vidíme jeho věčně zranitelného a romantického hrdinu, nuceného volit mezi svou soumračnou nesmrtelností a spásou nesmrtelné duše.
When Last The Vampire Lestat Was Seen, He Was Rising From The Dead In Present-Day New Orleans To Walk Again Among Anne Rice'S Unforgettable Undead. Now Lestat Lives Again, But In A Twilight World Of Music And Memory. His Charismatic Friend Louis De Pointe Du Lac Is Tortured By The Memory Of The Child Vampire, Claudia, Whom He Loved And Lost. He Calls On Merrick, Young And Gorgeous Mixed-Race By-Blow Of The Rich New Orleans Mayfair Clan. To Save Louis' Sanity, Merrick Must Use Her Black Witchcraft To Call Up The Ghost Of Claudia - However Dangerous This May Be. There Are Other Mayfair Spirits Who Will Not Lie Still, And Her Search Takes Her Close To The Edge, Through Blood And Terror, Ritual And Violence. Sweeping From New Orleans To The Brazilian Jungle And The Island Of Haiti, This Is Vampire Literature At Its Most Tantalising, Sexy And Irresistible.
Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.
Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative—her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches—to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.
Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.
V Princi Lestatovi, dlouho očekávaném návratu do říše Upířích kronik, znovu ožívá neodolatelný svět duchů, nejstarších a nejmocnějších sil mezi nebem a zemí. Tam patří i nezkrotný, neviditelný Amel, jehož žízeň po lidské krvi ohrožuje nesmrtelné nemrtvé po celém světě. Anne Riceová pokračuje tam, kde před více než čtvrt stoletím v mimořádně působivé Královně prokletých a Upíru Lestatovi skončila, aby vytvořila nový výjimečný okruh duchů a sil – postavy, legendu a tradici všech Upířích kronik. Román se přesouvá ze současného New Yorku a západního pobřeží USA do starověkého Egypta, Kartága ve třetím století, Říma čtrnáctého století a renesančních Benátek. Pohybuje se mezi světy a bytostmi všech Upířích kronik – nevynechá Louise de Pointe du Lac; věčně mladého Armanda, jehož tvář patří Botticelliho andělu; hovoří o Mekare a Maharet; Pandoře a Flaviovi; Davidu Talbotovi, upírovi a hlavním zástupci utajované Talamasky; neopomene pravé tisícileté dítě Maria a přidá spoustu nových podmanivých nadpřirozených postav. Ti všichni se setkávají v tomto obsáhlém, barvitém, ambiciózním románu, aby nakonec povstali a vypátrali, kdo (nebo co) je hlas, a odhalili, po čem touží a proč… Zdánlivě nepřítomnou ústřední postavou, všemi postrádaným potulným hrdinou je nebezpečný rebel, psanec a naděje nemrtvých – okouzlující princ Lestat…
*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..." At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty powers of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?
The mother of all vampires, Akasha, awakens after a 6,000 year slumber when she hears Lestat the vampire's music about her. She elevates herself to the level of the gods and vows to destroy Lestat.
The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Witness the confessions of a vampire. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 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. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. QUEEN OF THE DAMNED Akasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. --back cover
