Books by Anne Rice
Born: 10/04/1941Anne Rice Biography & Notes
Anne Rice (born October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of horror/fantasy books. She was born Howard Allen O'Brien, the second daughter in a Catholic Irish-American family. Her works have had a major influence on the "Goth" movement, and she has also published a number of works with sado-masochistic themes. She was married to the late poet Stan Rice and is the mother of novelist Christopher Rice. Her daughter, Michele, was born on September 21, 1966 and died of leukemia on August 5, 1972. Anne's sister, Alice Borchardt, is also a noted genre author.
Rice was born and spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana, the city that forms the background against which most of her stories take place. Known for her avid interest in art and culture, she and her family occasionally took trips overseas to study the art later mentioned in her stories. More recently, following the death of her husband Stan Rice, she has relocated to the Coachella Valley, California area to be nearer her son, Christopher. After spending most of her adult life as a self described atheist, Rice returned to the Roman Catholic Church in 1998, and she is currently working on a trilogy about the life of Jesus.
Rice has also published erotica under the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure, the latter of which was used primarily for more adult-oriented material. Her fiction is often described as lush and descriptive, and her characters' sexuality is fluid, often displaying homoerotic feelings towards each other. She also deals with philosophical and historic themes, weaving them in to the dense pattern of her books, and giving them a highly intellectual, if not highly literary, content. To her admirers, Rice's books are among the best in modern popular fiction, considered by some to possess those elements that create a lasting presence in the literary canon. To her critics, her novels are baroque, "low-brow pulp" and redundant.
A critical analysis of Rice's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001).
Conversion to a Christian Novelist
In October of 2005, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord". Her first novel in the genre is called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and is the first in a trilogy that will chronicle the life of Christ.
The Vampire Chronicles
She completed her first book, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973 and published it in 1976.
Interview with the Vampire can also be viewed as an example of psychedelic literature. Rice herself has denied ever having experimented with LSD. "I'm a totally conservative person. In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." (New York Times, Nov 7, 1988) Her potagonist Louis, however, describes a heightened awareness after being transformed into a vampire which does mirror the LSD experience to some extent.
Rice has said that Claudia, the young girl in the book, was inspired by her late daughter.
Health
Rice has Type 1 diabetes. This was discovered when she went into a diabetic coma in December of 1998. She is an advocate for people to get tested for diabetes. Because of a lifelong battle with her weight as well as depression due to the long illness and subsequent death of her husband, Rice's weight ballooned to 254 pounds. Tired of dealing with sleep apnea, limited mobility, and other weight-related problems, she had gastric bypass surgery on January 15, 2003.
On 30 January 2004 Rice announced her plans to leave New Orleans to move the suburb of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She had already put the largest of her three homes in Uptown New Orleans up for sale, and plans to sell the other two. She cited living alone since the death of her husband and her son's moving out of state as the reasons. "Simplifying my life, not owning so much, that's the chief goal," said Rice. "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in the true sense." In spring 2005 Anne Rice moved to La Jolla, California. She calls her new home "Paradise West." Some have speculated that Rice also wished for more privacy from the constant attentions of her fans, who were known to camp out in front of her house. Sometimes, up to 200 or more would gather to see her leave for church on Sundays. She is also very adamant about preventing any fan fiction of her books-- on April 7, 2000, she released a statement on her website that prohibited all fanfiction involving her work. This caused the removal of thousands of fanfics from the popular Fanfiction.Net website.
Amazon incident
On September 6, 2004, Rice posted a reply to a number of negative reviews that had appeared on Amazon.com regarding Blood Canticle. She titled her reply, "From the Author to the Some of the Negative Voices Here." This post generated a great deal of publicity online -- partly because authors rarely post or respond to reviews on Amazon, and partly because of the tone and nature of her text. Many previous reviews had criticized the quality of writing in Blood Canticle as lazy or shoddy; so when Rice replied by posting a 1,200-word paragraph wherein she proudly dismisses the utility of editors, the incident became fodder for weblogs and Internet sites.
Rice was born and spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana, the city that forms the background against which most of her stories take place. Known for her avid interest in art and culture, she and her family occasionally took trips overseas to study the art later mentioned in her stories. More recently, following the death of her husband Stan Rice, she has relocated to the Coachella Valley, California area to be nearer her son, Christopher. After spending most of her adult life as a self described atheist, Rice returned to the Roman Catholic Church in 1998, and she is currently working on a trilogy about the life of Jesus.
Rice has also published erotica under the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure, the latter of which was used primarily for more adult-oriented material. Her fiction is often described as lush and descriptive, and her characters' sexuality is fluid, often displaying homoerotic feelings towards each other. She also deals with philosophical and historic themes, weaving them in to the dense pattern of her books, and giving them a highly intellectual, if not highly literary, content. To her admirers, Rice's books are among the best in modern popular fiction, considered by some to possess those elements that create a lasting presence in the literary canon. To her critics, her novels are baroque, "low-brow pulp" and redundant.
A critical analysis of Rice's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001).
Conversion to a Christian Novelist
In October of 2005, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord". Her first novel in the genre is called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and is the first in a trilogy that will chronicle the life of Christ.
The Vampire Chronicles
She completed her first book, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973 and published it in 1976.
Interview with the Vampire can also be viewed as an example of psychedelic literature. Rice herself has denied ever having experimented with LSD. "I'm a totally conservative person. In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." (New York Times, Nov 7, 1988) Her potagonist Louis, however, describes a heightened awareness after being transformed into a vampire which does mirror the LSD experience to some extent.
Rice has said that Claudia, the young girl in the book, was inspired by her late daughter.
Health
Rice has Type 1 diabetes. This was discovered when she went into a diabetic coma in December of 1998. She is an advocate for people to get tested for diabetes. Because of a lifelong battle with her weight as well as depression due to the long illness and subsequent death of her husband, Rice's weight ballooned to 254 pounds. Tired of dealing with sleep apnea, limited mobility, and other weight-related problems, she had gastric bypass surgery on January 15, 2003.
On 30 January 2004 Rice announced her plans to leave New Orleans to move the suburb of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She had already put the largest of her three homes in Uptown New Orleans up for sale, and plans to sell the other two. She cited living alone since the death of her husband and her son's moving out of state as the reasons. "Simplifying my life, not owning so much, that's the chief goal," said Rice. "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in the true sense." In spring 2005 Anne Rice moved to La Jolla, California. She calls her new home "Paradise West." Some have speculated that Rice also wished for more privacy from the constant attentions of her fans, who were known to camp out in front of her house. Sometimes, up to 200 or more would gather to see her leave for church on Sundays. She is also very adamant about preventing any fan fiction of her books-- on April 7, 2000, she released a statement on her website that prohibited all fanfiction involving her work. This caused the removal of thousands of fanfics from the popular Fanfiction.Net website.
Amazon incident
On September 6, 2004, Rice posted a reply to a number of negative reviews that had appeared on Amazon.com regarding Blood Canticle. She titled her reply, "From the Author to the Some of the Negative Voices Here." This post generated a great deal of publicity online -- partly because authors rarely post or respond to reviews on Amazon, and partly because of the tone and nature of her text. Many previous reviews had criticized the quality of writing in Blood Canticle as lazy or shoddy; so when Rice replied by posting a 1,200-word paragraph wherein she proudly dismisses the utility of editors, the incident became fodder for weblogs and Internet sites.
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Angel Time by Anne Rice ( 1999) |
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Angelwhisp by Anne Rice ( 1997) |
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Anne Rice Live by Anne Rice, Alice Borchardt ( 1997) |
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The Anne Rice Value Collection Mayfair Witches Lasher, The Witching Hour, Taltos by Anne Rice ( 2005)
A chilling omnibus collection of three of Anne Rice's spellbinding novels about a family of witches includes Lasher, The Witching Hour, and Taltos, narrated by Joe Morton, Lindsay Crouse, and Tim Curry, respectively. Books available.
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Anne Rice's the Vampire Lestat A Graphic Novel by Anne Rice ( 1991)
Collected for the first time, here are the twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Evocative full-color paintings and an artful abridgment of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale.
The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face-to-face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through time. Where it has led him and what he has become is the heart of the tale that has captured millions of readers. |
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Armand El Vampiro by Anne Rice ( 2002) |
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Armand el vampiro/ The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice ( 2008)
The latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles follows the story of Armand, who first appeared in
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Armand el vampiro/ The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice, Anne Rice ( 1984)
Beauty is sold into erotic slavery and forced to obey the orders of the Captain and Mistress Lockley.
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Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice ( 2004) An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Read by Genvieve Bevier and Winthrop Eliot. |
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Beauty's Release The Sequel to the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice, Anne Rice ( 1985)
Kidnapped by enemy soldiers, Beauty, Tristan, and Prince Laurent are sent across the sea to become sexual slaves to the mysterious Sultan.
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Beauty's Release the Third of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, Anne Rice ( 2004)
Kidnapped by enemy soldiers, Beauty, Tristan, and Prince Laurent are sent across the sea to become sexual slaves to the mysterious Sultan, in the third and final volume in the classic erotic trilogy based on the fairy tale, which also includes Beauty's Punishment and The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Read by Genvieve Bevier. Book available.
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Beguiled by Alice Borchardt ( 1997)
The conclusion of the story of Owen, Bishop of Chantalon, and his lady, Elin, opens with the pair once again marshalling their forces in a desperate struggle against the Viking raiders that threaten their community.
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Belinda by Anne Rice ( 1994)
Belinda is the ultimate fantasy: a golden-haired object of desire, fresh and uninhibited. But to Jeremy Walker, a handsome and famous 44-year-old illustrator of children's books, this incredibly seductive woman is a forbidden passion . . . because Belinda is only 16.
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Belinda by Anne Rice, Anne Rice ( 2000)
Obsessed with the mystery surrounding Belinda, his precocious sixteen-year-old lover, Jeremy Walker, a middle-aged illustrator of children's books, is swept into Belinda's world of Hollywood money, lust, and dark family secrets. Reprint.
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Blackwood Farm The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice ( 2002)
In her new novel, 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. |
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Blood Canticle by Anne Rice ( 2003)
Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off — and tells the story of Lestat’s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.
Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who’s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat’s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona’s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book’s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy’s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise, Blood Canticle is Anne Rice at her finest. |
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Blood and Gold by Anne Rice ( 2002)
“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.”
–People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . . |
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Called Out of Darkness A Spiritual Confession by Anne Rice ( 2008)
In a haunting memoir, the best-selling author of
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Camino a Cana/ Road to Cana El Mesias/ Christ the Lord by Anne Rice ( 2008)
After his baptism, Jesus is at last ready to confront his destiny, and at the wedding at Cana, he takes water and transforms it into red wine, and thus, he is recognized as the anointed one and called by God the Father to begin a ministry that will transform an unsuspecting world.
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Cantico De Sangre / The Blood Canticle by Anne Rice ( 2006) |
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Cantico de sangre/ Blood Canticle by Anne Rice ( 2007)
Characters from both of Anne Rice's established series--
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Christ The Lord The Road to Cana by Anne Rice ( 2009)
In the second installment of Anne Rice's bestselling series chronicling the life and times of Yeshua of Nazareth (aka Jesus Christ), Yeshua is now 30 years old and fully aware of his divine status, though he has yet to begin to preach the word of God and commit to his ministry. In fact, he's troubled by more human concerns, such as his feeling towards a troubled teenage girl, and the gossip of the townspeople who wonder why he has not taken a wife. Rice sticks close enough to the gospels and Christian orthodoxy as she tells of Yeshua's travails, his journey in the desert, and his confrontation with Satan to please Christian readers, while simultaneously providing enough scandal and titillation to sate the desires of her multitude of vampire-novel fans.
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Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( 2006)
Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven. Reprint.
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Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( 2006)
The author of Interview with the Vampire incorporates the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from His early years, through His ministry, to His final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven. Read by Josh Heine. Book available.
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Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( )
Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of Christ the Lord, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story. |
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Christ the Lord The Road to Cana by Anne Rice ( 2008)
A second volume in the author's series of novels chronicling the life of Christ begins prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concludes with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves his everyday life in Nazareth to confront his destiny, the Devil's temptations, and the call to be Israel's liberator from Roman occupation. 500,000 first printing.
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Christ the Lord The Road to Cana by Anne Rice ( 2008)
A second volume in the author's series of novels chronicling the life of Christ begins prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concludes with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves his everyday life in Nazareth to confront his destiny, the Devil's temptations, and the call to be Israel's liberator from Roman occupation. Simultaneous.
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Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( 2005)
Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven.
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Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( 2008)
A novel by the author of
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice ( 2003) From bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince reawakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him…as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. |
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice ( 1999)
The Prince awakens Sleeping Beauty and brings her to his castle, where she has a series of erotic adventures.
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Conversations With Anne Rice by Anne Rice, Michael Riley ( 1996)
In the novel that introduced Anne Rice to the world, Interview with the Vampire, a reporter seeks out the facts behind an extraordinary life. In the years since, Anne Rice has created a remarkable and acclaimed body of work - encompassing her celebrated Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels, two haunting historical epics, and her controversial, equally sought-after excursions into erotica. One of the world's best known and biggest bestselling authors of contemporary fiction, Rice has herself been the subject of countless interviews, profiles, and a full-length biography. Yet who Anne Rice is, and the beliefs, fascinations, desires, fears, and passions that inspire her work, remain endlessly fascinating topics. In this first-of-its-kind book-length interview with Anne Rice, film scholar and author Michael Riley seeks out - and finds - the truth behind the extraordinary life and work of a unique, tantalizing writer. In Conversations with Anne Rice, the creator of Lestat, Louis, and Lasher talks in depth - and in her own words - about everything: from her early struggles toward publication to the tremendous literary reputation she has achieved. From the success and adulation of the vampire novels to the lesser-known books that are her personal favorites. From the influence of classical and popular literature to that of Catholicism and eroticism. From the role of movies in her literary vision to her definitive critique of the film version of Interview with the Vampire, and far beyond.
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Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice ( 1995)
They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!
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Cry to Heaven/Feast of All Saints/Boxed Set by Anne Rice ( 1993)
Tonio Treschi is the young heir to a Venetian fortune. After his brother has him kidnapped and castrated, Tonio becomes a singer, one of the Italian male sopranos known as the castrati, and determines to take revenge on his brother.
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Devoted by Anne Rice, Alice Borchardt ( 1995)
A marriage between Owen, Bishop of Chantalon, and Erin, a woman of the Forest People, promises to bridge the Christian world with the pagan mysticism of the past, until a Viking raid leaves Erin the sole hope of preserving the fragile peace of ninth-century Chantalon. 75,000 first printing. Lit Guild & Doubleday.
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Entretien Avec UN Vampire/Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 1992)
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Entrevista Con El Vampiro Cronicas Vampiricas by Anne Rice ( 1999)
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Entrevista con el vampiro / Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice ( 2000) |
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Entrevista con el vampiro/ Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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Exit to Eden by Anne Rice ( 2007)
Dispatched to infiltrate a secret sex club on an exclusive island resort, thrill-seeking photographer Elliott poses as an exotic slave and becomes irresistibly drawn to the club's dominatrix founder Lisa, who hides a growing restlessness beneath a ruthless perfectionist persona. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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Exit to Eden by Anne Rice ( 1996)
"The same kind of skillful writing that brought respectability to the erotic works of Henry Miller, Anaís Nin, and D. H. Lawrence."
--UPI There is Lisa: They call her the Perfectionist. A stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer, she is founder and supreme mistress of The Club--an expensive, exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. There is Elliott: A thrill-seeking photographer who has risked his life in war zones around the world. Now he is committed to the ultimate plunge into personal risk--exploring his darkest sexual self. Join them on a journey to the limits of erotic pleasure and beyond. Surrender to the tantalizing wonders of the imagination behind the spellbinding sensuality of The Vampire Chronicles. Take leave of the world you know--and step into Eden. . . . "To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time." --San Francisco Chronicle "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere. . . .She makes us believe everything she sees." --The New York Times "No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution |
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Exit to Eden/Movie Tie in by Anne Rice ( 1994)
Lisa, the stern and beautiful mastermind behind The Club, an exclusive sexual playground, is horrified when she finds herself falling for one of the new slaves, a cocky and irresistible photojournalist named Elliott. Reissue. Movie tie-in.
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Farm Babies by Anne Rice ( 1994) |
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The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice ( 1986)
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
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Interview Mit Einem Vampir by Anne Rice ( 1994)
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Interview With Anne Rice A Conversation Between Anne Rice and Michael Riley by Anne Rice, Michael Riley ( 1997)
A conversation with the author of the Vampire Chronicles reveals her experiences and beliefs, the influences behind her work, and her future writing plans.
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Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice ( 1997)
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature and a stalwart in the vampire literature canon.
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Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 2007)
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature and a stalwart in the vampire literature canon.
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LA Horas De LA Brujas by Anne Rice ( 2000) |
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LA Reina De Los Condenados by Anne Rice ( 1996)
In the process of successfully "outing" himself as a vampire via his simultaneous career choices of rock star, author, and actor, Lestat has annoyed much of the vampire "community," who are furious that he has revealed their secrets (even if most of Lestat's fans don't really believe in his bloodsucking ways). More importantly, however, Lestat's antics have awakened the legendary Akasha, the mother of all vampires, and she is not exactly pleased with the way things have been going in the 6,000 years since she last ruled the world.
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LA Reine Des Damnes by Anne Rice ( 1995)
In the process of successfully "outing" himself as a vampire via his simultaneous career choices of rock star, author, and actor, Lestat has annoyed much of the vampire "community," who are furious that he has revealed their secrets (even if most of Lestat's fans don't really believe in his bloodsucking ways). More importantly, however, Lestat's antics have awakened the legendary Akasha, the mother of all vampires, and she is not exactly pleased with the way things have been going in the 6,000 years since she last ruled the world.
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La Hora De Las Brujas / The Witching Hour by Anne Rice ( 2006) |
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La Momia / The Mummy or Ramses the Dammed by Luis Soldevilla, Anne Rice ( 2005) |
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La Reina De Los Condenados/The Queen of the Dammed by Anne Rice ( 2006) |
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La reina de los condenados/ The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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El Ladron De Cuerpos by Anne Rice ( 1999) |
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Lasher by Anne Rice ( 1994)
Increasingly as popular as her legendary vampires, Anne Rice's Mayfair witches return in the paperback edition of the bestselling sequel to The Witching Hour. Around the globe, through time and between the worlds, the beautiful coven queen Rowan Mayfair flees the evil spell of the darkly compelling Lasher.
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Lest El Vampiro by Anne Rice ( 1996)
Lestat, who made Louis into a vampire in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, awakens from an ancient sleep and finds himself in the 1980s. Resourceful, enamored of glamour, he becomes a rock star. The novel traces the vampire legend from its origins in ancient Egypt through its European permutations and, eventually, to America.
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Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice ( 1992) |
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Lestat el vampiro/ The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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Lestat, El Vampiro/the Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice ( 2001) |
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The Master of Rampling Gate A Graphic Tale of Unspeakable Horror by the Author of the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 1991) |
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Memnoch El Demonio by Anne Rice ( 1997) |
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Memnoch El Diablo by Anne Rice ( 2002) |
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Memnoch el diablo/ Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice ( 1997)
"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCHS TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rices most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scriptures legends and as modern as todays religious strife."--Rolling Stone "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."--The Washington Post Book World "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."--Playboy "[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."--The Seattle Times
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Merrick A Novel by Anne Rice ( 2001)
In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.
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El Mesias / Christ the Lord El Nino Judio/ Out of Egypt by Anne Rice ( 2007) |
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The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice ( 1991)
"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger.... |
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New Tales Of The Vampires Pandora Vittorio, The Vampire by Anne Rice ( 2004)
In Pandora, fledgling vampire David Talbot chronicles the history of Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire, and in fifteenth-century Renaissance Florence, Vittorio finds his world shattered when his entire family is destroyed in an act of unholy violence and embarks on a desperate quest for revenge, in Vittorio, the Vampire, in an omnibus edition.
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Pandora by Anne Rice ( 2005)
Pandora tells the story of her life as a politician's daughter in ancient Rome, and her subsequent conversion to vampirism.
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Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice ( 1988)
The third novel in the Chronicles of the Vampires trilogy, The Queen of the Damned takes readers back 6,000 years to the beginnings of vampirism and leads them across the vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent and sensual world of vampiredom, finally bringing forth the 20th-century fate of the living dead.
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Sangre Y Oro / Blood & Gold Las Cronicas Vampiricas / Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice ( 2003) |
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El Santuario/ Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice ( 2007) |
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Servant of the Bone by Anne Rice ( 1996)
Azriel, a genie who has existed as a spirit for thousands of years, metamorphoses into human form in contemporary New York. He first recounts the tale of his life in ancient times, then turns to the pressing matters at hand: a computer-created cult is plotting to decimate two-thirds of the world's population. Can Azriel protect the unwitting world from impending slaughter while acclimating to modern conveniences?
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Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice ( 1998)
From the bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles comes the enthralling novel of a centuries-old spirit on a terrifying quest in the modern world. His name is Azriel. He is a ghost, demon, angel--in love with good and a captive of evil. Plucked from death in ancient Babylon and transformed into a genii, he journeys through time and dares to risk his supernatural powers to stop a world-threatening conspiracy.
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Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice ( )
Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, Anne Rice now carries us into the realms of the occult, the mystical and the magical, and into the presence - now and through centuries - of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones.
Azriel is ghost, demon, angel - in love with the good, in thrall to the evil - and he pours out his heart to us, telling us his astonishing story. He takes us back in time to his own mortal youth in the magnificent city of Babylon. In a time of bloody wars and religious upheavals, he falls victim to a royal plot compounded by his devotion to his Hebrew God - only to be plucked from death by evil priests and sorceresses and transformed into a genii commanded to do their bidding. Challenging these forces of destruction, Azriel embarks on his perilous journey through time - from Babylon's hanging gardens, to Europe during the black Death, to Manhattan in the 1990s - and ultimately to his crucial confrontation with the twentieth-century embodiment of all that he has struggled against. As Azriel's quest approaches its climax, he dares to use and to risk his supernatural powers in the hope of forestalling a world-threatening conspiracy, and redeeming, at last, what was denied him so long ago: his own eternal human soul. |
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The Sleeping Beauty Novels The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty/Beauty's Punishment/Beauty's Release by Anne Rice ( 1992) |
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Sleeping Beauty Novels by Anne Rice ( 1999)
A beautifully designed boxed set of erotica by the bestselling author. Rice's enormously successful "Beauty" books are based very loosely on the Sleeping Beauty tale, and explore just about every sexually explicit fantasy imaginable. "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic".--Playboy.
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The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice ( 1993)
Lestat, the vampire-hero, enchanter and seducer of mortals, speaks in the new book in the bestselling Vampire Chronicles that began with Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the dark universe of the living dead. But now he is alone, and everything he has come to believe in is called into question. Soon he will embark on the most dangerous enterprise he has ever undertaken. . . .
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Taltos Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice ( 1996)
Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. A movie of Rice's bestseller, Interview with a Vampire, is scheduled for November release.
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El Ultimo De Los Taltos by Anne Rice ( 1998) |
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The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice ( 1999)
In her latest installment of "The Vampire Chronicles, " Anne Rice brings readers the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel--who first appeared in his dark glory in "Interview with the Vampire."
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The Vampire Chronicles Collection Interview With the Vampire/Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice ( 2002)
The first three novels in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles series come together in an omnibus volume containing Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned, three works that capture the dark and seductive world of the undead. Reprint.
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The Vampire Chronicles/the Queen of the Damned/the Vampire Lestat/Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 1990) |
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The Vampire Companion The Official Guide to Anne Rice's the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, Katherine Ramsland ( 1995)
Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice - and now with more than 1,200 entries - The Vampire Companion offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the five volumes of The Vampire Chronicles, including more than one hundred pages of new entries on Rice's latest vampire novel, Memnoch the Devil. Everything that readers might want to explore further is annotated and analyzed in this entertaining and enlightening work: the unforgettable characters of Louis, Lestat, Claudia, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch; the important points of interest on Lestat's fascinating tour through Heaven and Hell; ancient lore; Rice's unique contributions to the mythos of vampires; the literary inspirations that echo through the novels; Rice's own reflections and revalations about her work and about the movie Interview with the Vampire; and much more.
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Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice ( 1997)
Lestat, who made Louis into a vampire in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, awakens from an ancient sleep and finds himself in the 1980s. Resourceful, enamored of glamour, he becomes a rock star. The novel traces the vampire legend from its origins in ancient Egypt its through European permutations and, eventually, to America.
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El Vampiro Armand by Anne Rice ( 1998) |
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Vampiro Pandora by Anne Rice ( 1999) |
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Violin by Anne Rice ( 1999) In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. |
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Violin/Open Market Edition by Anne Rice ( 1998)
This big, luscious novel carries us from nineteenth-century Vienna to present-day New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro as it tells the story of three charismatic figures bound together by their obsession with music.One is an exquisite young woman who dreams of becoming a great musician. One is a violinist, the ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who preys upon the woman--using his musical genius to enchant, command, and manipulate her and draw her into his spectral realms. The third in this triumvirate--is the crank shade of Ludwig von Beethoven.A fabulous trio. A seductively opulent world. An amalgam of the eerie and the romantic that could only come from Anne Rice at her inimitable best.
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Vittorio El Vampiro by Anne Rice ( 2002) |
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Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice ( )
Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de'Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.
In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war, and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. Vittorio is Volume 2 of The New Tales of the Vampires. |
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Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice ( 1999)
A young man whose family is slaughtered by demons swears revenge, only to find himself turned into a vampire by the very monster responsible for killing his loved ones.
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The Witches' Companion The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice, Katherine Ramsland ( 1996)
"The Mayfair family is a huge imaginative refuge for me; it is living and growing in my mind all the time."
--Anne Rice In the spellbinding tradition of her bestselling The Vampire Chronicles, the prolific Anne Rice has created the sensuous saga of the Mayfair witches. Resonant with supernatural suspense, mesmerizing eroticism, and lush detail, The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos have bewitched the imaginations of readers everywhere. Now comes the definitive touchstone guide to the history and mystery of this magnificent dynasty of witches. Just as she did with The Vampire Companion, biographer and Anne Rice authority Katherine Ramsland presents a fascinating A-to-Z encyclopedia of information, interpretation, and analysis--this time devoted to the characters and key events, places and symbols, historical and mythological themes of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels. Created with the full cooperation of Anne Rice, The Witches' Companion features detailed character breakdowns, from the present-day enchantress Rowan Mayfair to the lustful spirit Lasher; a complete genealogy of the Mayfair family; a chronology of events; a guide to geographical locations; the intriguing origins of the Mayfairs' extraordinary clan; revealing observations from Anne Rice herself; and much more. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photos, drawings, and maps, The Witches' Companion will be every Anne Rice fan's inseparable companion in traveling through the unforgettable world of the Mayfair witches and their legacy. |
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The Witching Hour by Anne Rice ( 1991)
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Two people with special powers are drwan together and set out in a passionate alliance to unlock the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift. As the strane saga is played out, a world of witches is created that will fascinate readers for years to come.
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El ladron de cuerpos/ The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice ( 2009) |
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El mesias/ Christ The Lord El nino judio/ Out of Egipt by Anne Rice ( 2007) |
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