RICE ANNE

(P/B) THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF
The burden of immortality is weighing upon the vampire Lestat. In a desperate bid to end his everlasting life he attempts suicide by flying into the sunrise above the Gobi desert. The attempt fails but it intensifies his desire to be human again. Just as Lestat resigns himself to the body of a killer he is approached by the body thief, a creature who covets Lestat's monstrous power and can give him what he wants: a mortal body. Lestat, ignoring the warnings of those he trusts, agrees to surrender his vampire body for a week. But the body t...
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(P/B) THE VAMPIRE LESTAT
'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' Lestat: a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom - as, pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across time for the secret of his own dar...
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Ο ΒΡΙΚΟΛΑΚΑΣ ΛΕΣΤΑΤ
Το όνομά του είναι Λεστάτ και είναι βρικόλακας - ένα πλάσμα της νύχτας και των θρύλων, που όμως ζει ανάμεσά μας και διαφέρει απόλυτα από την εικόνα των μακάβριων βαμπίρ που στοιχειώνουν τη συλλογική μνήμη της ανθρωπότητας. Ξεκινώντας την περιπλάνησή του από το Παρίσι του 18ου αιώνα, μας ξεναγεί στη μυστηριακή αρχαία Αίγυπτο, τη Βρετανία των Δρυίδων, τη Ρώμη των Αυτοκρατόρων αλλά και στη φρενήρη ζωή των αμερικανικών μεγαλουπόλεων του 20ού αιώνα, όπου οι αστέρες της ροκ λατρεύονται σαν θεοί. Αντισυμβατικός και παρορμητικός, διψασμένος για ζω...
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(P/B) THE VAMPIRE ARMAND
Magnificent and electrifying, The Vampire Armand tells the tale of the mesmerising leader of the vampire coven, the Theatre des Vampires in Paris. This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and hi...
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(P/B) INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination . . . sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'.(from the publisher)...
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(P/B) TALTOS
The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them. Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge a...
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(P/B) BLOOD AND GOLD
Here is the glorious and sinister life of Marius: patrician by birth, scholar by choice and one of the oldest vampires of them all. From his genesis in ancient Rome, to his present day we follow the story of this aristocratic and powerful killer. His is a tale that spans the breadth of time. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory of Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora. So prevalent is Marius that it is he who gives the dark gift to the illustrious vampire Armand. Intertw...
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(P/B) CRY TO HEAVEN
In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness. Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans his revenge while striving to become the greatest of all singers. Guido, sacrificed to the knife at an early age, composes opera and dreams of the p...
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(P/B) THE MUMMY
Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent 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. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved queen of Egypt. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to c...
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(P/B) MEMNOCH THE DEVIL
In this terrifying novel from the phenomenally successful Anne Rice, the illustrious vampire Lestat makes a Faustian pact with Devil. Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space and time, offering an alternative and personalised account of the Bible, exploring the events which shaped our world. Their journey comes to an apocalyptic conclusion in hell, from which Lestat returns frail and broken. The experience has shattered hi...
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(P/B) PANDORA
In a cafe in modern-day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the fearless and beautiful Pandora begins to tell her tale of treachery, vengeance and love stretching across two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Caesar Augustus, Pandora was first introduced to the blood-tainted cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn even further into the dark, ancient rites. Now looking back across the centuries, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans, to find the love of her early life, Marius, and ...
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(P/B) BLOOD CANTICLE
The dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of evil. But now he struggles with his immortality, yearning for a more saintly path. His chance comes when he rescues a witch from death by turning her into a vampire. But the repercussions are swift as the powerful Mayfair family rally to punish Lestat for creating a killer from one of their flock. Yet in the midst of this schism comes a passionate love affair as Lestat becomes dangerously drawn to Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon and a true witch. However, the fates are cruel and i...
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(P/B) MERRICK
The 7th book in the Vampire Chronicles. Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo come together in this vivid, exotic and terrifying novel. Louis is a vampire tortured by guilt. His status as a killer has left him conflicted for much of his immortal life, but after the murder of Claudia, his beloved child vampire, he spirals into a state of depression. And in a moment of desperation he decides to bring her back with the help of the beautiful witch Merrick. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use black magic to call up the ghost of Claudia - however ...
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(P/B) BLACKWOOD FARM
A terrifying drama of bloodlust and betrayal is unravelling within the Blackwood Farm family. Their grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible, blood-stained secrets. Heir to them all is the young, rash and beautiful Quinn Blackwood. But he is being controlled an evil spirit, a demon who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of the vampire Lestat, combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair witch clan can save Quinn from himself, and rescue the doomed girl he loves ...
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(P/B) PRINCE LESTAT AND THE REALMS OF ATLANTIS
"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. ...
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(P/B) THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep. (From the publisher)...
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ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΜΕ ΕΝΑΝ ΒΡΙΚΟΛΑΚΑ
"Δεν είναι μια συνηθισμένη πράξη ο φόνος" είπε το βαμπίρ. "Δεν μπουκώνεται κανείς απλά με αίμα." Κούνησε το κεφάλι. "Είναι η εμπειρία της ζωής του άλλου, συχνά η εμπειρία της αργής απώλειας εκείνης της ζωής μέσα από το αίμα. Είναι η επαναλαμβανόμενη εμπειρία της απώλειας της ίδιας μου της ζωής που βίωσα όταν ρουφούσα το αίμα από τον καρπό του Λεστάτ και ένιωθα την καρδιά του να χτυπά μαζί με τη δική μου. Είναι ξανά και ξανά μια τελετή εκείνης της εμπειρίας· γιατί για τα βαμπίρ αυτή είναι η απόλυτη εμπειρία." Υπνωτικό, σοκαριστικό και ανατρ...
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(P/B) THE WOLF GIFT
MAN OR MONSTER? Anne Rice reinvented the vampire legend. Discover what she's done with the werewolf myth. After a brutal attack Reuben finds himself changing. His hair is longer, his skin is more sensitive and he can hear things he never could before. Now he must confront the beast within him or lose himself completely. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TALES OF THE BODY THIEF
Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city, where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface - the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his nightmare immortality. When, stalked in his turn by the only creature able to grant his desire, Lestat rashly seizes the chance. While the Body Thie...
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Ο ΥΠΗΡΕΤΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΣΤΩΝ
(. . .) Είναι φάντασμα, δαίμονας, άγγελος, λάτρης του καλού, σκλάβος του κακού. Μας ανοίγει την καρδιά του, μας διηγείται τη συναρπαστική ιστορία του από τη στιγμή που βρέθηκε ξαφνικά στη σύγχρονη Νέα Υόρκη για να γίνει ο συγκλονισμένος αυτόπτης μάρτυρας στο στυγερό φόνο μιας κοπέλας. Τίποτα δεν μπορεί να αντισταθεί στην ακατανόητη επιθυμία του να εκδικηθεί το θάνατό της. Τον ακολουθούμε πίσω στη θνητή νιότη του, στη μαγευτική πόλη της Βαβυλώνας - κέντρο λατρείας παγανιστικών θεών με εξαίσια ζιγκουράτ, ναούς και βωμούς, θαυμαστό αγκυροβόλι...
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