Once an aristocrat of pre-revolutionary France and now a rock star in the glory that is the 1980's, Lestat hurtles through the centuries in search of beings like himself, seeking answers to the age-old mystery that is his damned existence.

(The Australian band Savage Garden coined their name from this book – to Lestat all the world is a “ Savage Garden ”)

Akasha, the queen vampire herself, has been awakened from her six thousand- year long slumber to unleash the powers of the undead. She concocts a devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy Lestat.

(The book is NOT like the movie)

Lestat...the Brat prince…used to being the centre of the universe, finds himself alone. In a heartbeat, everything he believes in and considers safe is called into question. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of his doubts and loneliness, he sets out on the most ludicrous adventure he has ever undertaken in all his danger – haunted years

Lestat is snatched from the worldly realm by the most dangerous adversary he has yet to face: Memnoch, the nefarious being who claims to be the Devil. Taken to the heavenly realm and ushered into Purgatory, Lestat must decide if he believes in God or the Devil, and if so….whom shall he serve?

In this saga, Armand takes centre stage – ruminating on his five hundred year existence to the fledgling vampire, David Talbot. Armand tells of his fall from grace to become ‘the vagabond angel child of Satan' and the founding of ‘Théâtre des Vampires'. And now, in the twentieth century, he has found his faith and fallen in love with the two mortals who saved his life.

Once the noble woman of ancient Rome and later naming herself after the Pandora of mythology, Pandora opens her own box of surprises. In a café in modern-day Paris , she is seduced by the challenge to commit her history to paper.

Vittorio witnesses the gruesome massacre of his family by a band of monsters. Fleeing the scene of carnage, he follows the demons, in search of revenge, but finds himself succumbing to religion's ‘dark side'.

Descendant of the gens de couleur libres , Merrick is also the descendant of the Great Mayfair witches. In this tale, Anne Rice weaves together the fabrics of two of her spellbinding worlds – those of the Mayfair witches and the Vampire Chronicles. David Talbot seeks out Merrick to recount to him her haunted past. We are taken from past and modern-day New Orleans to the sweltering jungles of Guatemala and into the Mayan ruins.

A tale woven of passion and pain… Anne Rice gives Marius life, you can feel his breath on your neck when he speaks, you can feel his touch, cold then warm after the kill .We are shown ancient Rome through the eyes of a child of the millennia, We are taught to love and to hate and to want. To read of Marius' life is to know him intimately, to yearn for his blood, to die for his kiss.

Once again Anne Rice fuses together two of her most seductive worlds – that of the vampire legend and the lore of the Mayfair witches. In the world that is Blackwood Farm, Quinn Blackwood is a brilliant young man, haunted since birth by an enigmatic doppelganger, known as Goblin.
When Quinn is made a vampire, Goblin becomes more powerful and demonic then even Quinn.

Blood Canticle picks up where Blackwood Farm left off. Mona Mayfair has come to Blackwood Farm to die, instead is made one of the undead. Rowan Mayfair , brilliant neurosurgeon and powerful witch finds herself dangerously spellbound by Lestat. Filled with the ghosts of their ancestors, Blood Canticle brings to a close the mesmerizing saga of Blackwood Farm.