A vampire psychodrama created by “the messenger from the occult world,” Anne Rice, has become truly a classic—not only of its genre, but of world literature. The story of a vampire, told by him in defiance of all the commandments, is captivating from the very first pages. A hypnotic voice narrates the life and unlife and seems to carry the listener, as if in a dream, to Louisiana plantations, to 19th-century Paris, to a tiny village in the Carpathian region… Could the inhabitants of the World of Darkness—the embodiment of evil—be capable, like mortals, of suffering and rejoicing, of loving and hating, of eternally seeking answers to eternal questions?