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