The confession of Lestat, the hero of “The Vampire Chronicles,” who tries to find the origins of his eternal existence and to meet the Children of the Millennium—carries us through centuries and continents: Ancient Egypt and 20th-century America, the Roman Empire and Renaissance Venice…
Historically accurate and at the same time filled with boundless imagination, the narrative allows a glimpse into the secrets of past eras and penetrates into the mysteries of ancient magic…