Best Anne Rice Books

The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 2

by Anne Rice

The Witching Hour

Lives of the Mayfair Witches • Book 1

by Anne Rice

A centuries-old spirit has guided the Mayfair witch dynasty through power and corruption, but neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair might be strong enough to break the cycle. Rice weaves medical thriller into gothic supernatural epic.

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A centuries-old spirit has guided the Mayfair witch dynasty through power and corruption, but neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair might be strong enough to break the cycle. Rice weaves medical thriller into gothic supernatural epic.

Interview with the Vampire

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 1

by Anne Rice

The Queen of the Damned

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 3

by Anne Rice

Rice awakens the first vampire, Akasha, who decides to remake the world by eliminating most of humanity, forcing Lestat and others to stop her.

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Rice awakens the first vampire, Akasha, who decides to remake the world by eliminating most of humanity, forcing Lestat and others to stop her.

Blood And Gold

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 8

by Anne Rice

Ancient vampire Marius recounts two millennia from his Roman origins to present-day encounters with Thorne, a Nordic vampire seeking his own maker.

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Ancient vampire Marius recounts two millennia from his Roman origins to present-day encounters with Thorne, a Nordic vampire seeking his own maker.

Blackwood Farm

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 9

by Anne Rice

A vampire heir haunted by both family ghosts and ancient spirits battles a malevolent presence in his Louisiana plantation home. Rice weaves vampire mythology into Southern Gothic tradition with her trademark lush prose.

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A vampire heir haunted by both family ghosts and ancient spirits battles a malevolent presence in his Louisiana plantation home. Rice weaves vampire mythology into Southern Gothic tradition with her trademark lush prose.

Prince Lestat

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 11

by Anne Rice

Global vampire immolation threatens the entire undead community, and only Lestat can trace the source of a Voice commanding mass destruction. Rice returns to her supernatural roots with apocalyptic scope and familiar characters.

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Global vampire immolation threatens the entire undead community, and only Lestat can trace the source of a Voice commanding mass destruction. Rice returns to her supernatural roots with apocalyptic scope and familiar characters.

Blood Communion

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 13

by Anne Rice

Prince Lestat tells his own story of ruling the vampire world, seeking belonging for the undead while fighting an unstoppable menace to his authority.

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Prince Lestat tells his own story of ruling the vampire world, seeking belonging for the undead while fighting an unstoppable menace to his authority.

The Vampire Armand

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 6

by Anne Rice

Rice finally tells Armand's full story: stolen from Renaissance Venice as a boy, transformed into an angel-faced vampire, and shaped by centuries of love and betrayal.

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Rice finally tells Armand's full story: stolen from Renaissance Venice as a boy, transformed into an angel-faced vampire, and shaped by centuries of love and betrayal.

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 4

by Anne Rice

What happens when an immortal vampire desperately seeks mortality? Lestat's reckless bargain with a body thief explores the price of being human versus undead.

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What happens when an immortal vampire desperately seeks mortality? Lestat's reckless bargain with a body thief explores the price of being human versus undead.

Memnoch the Devil

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 5

by Anne Rice

Lestat becomes obsessed with mortal Dora while the Devil himself recruits the vampire for a cosmic tour through heaven, hell, and the nature of good and evil.

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Lestat becomes obsessed with mortal Dora while the Devil himself recruits the vampire for a cosmic tour through heaven, hell, and the nature of good and evil.

Merrick

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 7

by Anne Rice

Graeme Malcolm's rich narration captures both the seductive allure and ancient menace of Rice's most complex magical creation.

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Graeme Malcolm's rich narration captures both the seductive allure and ancient menace of Rice's most complex magical creation.

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 12

by Anne Rice

Vampire chronicles meet ancient alien theory when otherworldly beings claim responsibility for creating vampires in the first place. Rice throws Atlantean technology and interdimensional travel into her gothic universe with typically operatic results.

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Vampire chronicles meet ancient alien theory when otherworldly beings claim responsibility for creating vampires in the first place. Rice throws Atlantean technology and interdimensional travel into her gothic universe with typically operatic results.

Blood Canticle (Anne Rice)

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 10

by Anne Rice

Lestat seeks love and goodness through his obsession with Rowan Mayfair while the worlds of vampires and Mayfair witches finally converge in Rice's ambitious crossover finale.

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Lestat seeks love and goodness through his obsession with Rowan Mayfair while the worlds of vampires and Mayfair witches finally converge in Rice's ambitious crossover finale.

Fangs

Vampire Archives • Book 2

by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Davies

Classic vampire anthology spans from Clive Barker's visceral horror to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian mysteries, exploring centuries of bloodthirsty folklore.

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Classic vampire anthology spans from Clive Barker's visceral horror to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian mysteries, exploring centuries of bloodthirsty folklore.

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Anne Rice)

Christ the Lord • Book 1

by Anne Rice

Rice tackles her most ambitious subject: the boy Jesus grappling with miraculous powers he doesn't understand. Based on scholarly research, it humanizes the divine while respecting both faith and history.

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Rice tackles her most ambitious subject: the boy Jesus grappling with miraculous powers he doesn't understand. Based on scholarly research, it humanizes the divine while respecting both faith and history.

The Wolf Gift

The Wolf Gift Chronicles • Book 1

by Anne Rice

A journalist's bite from a mysterious creature awakens ancient lupine powers and moral dilemmas in modern San Francisco. Rice explores the seductive darkness of transformation with her signature Gothic sensuality.

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A journalist's bite from a mysterious creature awakens ancient lupine powers and moral dilemmas in modern San Francisco. Rice explores the seductive darkness of transformation with her signature Gothic sensuality.