Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief)

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For the first time you can find all your favorite night-stalking, blood-guzzling undead--Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch--all in the same place at the same time. Here, collected in one box-set, are the four bestselling, original titles of Anne Rice's sprawling vampire series.

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Beautiful Box Set but Incomplete.......2007-10-01

For any Anne Rice Vampire fans you cannot go past this beautiful Box Set with modern artwork cover designs. My only complaint is why on earth isn't the Fifth and final volume of the central plot Vampire Chronicles (before all those spin-offs) included??? The fifth and final volume "Memnoch the Devil" should definitely be included in the Box Set without which it is simply NOT complete when the finale ends nicely with Lestat's famous last words:

I am the Vampire Lestat. Let me pass now from fiction into legend.

THE END

9:43 February 28, 1994 Adieu, mon amour.

Lestat Rocks My Boring World!.......2007-09-16

Everyone else has basically described all four of these books for the most part, so let me make my review brief and to the point. Interview, Lestat, and Tale of the Body Thief were my favorite books of the four in the chronicles. Queen of the Damned, however was long, slow, and so detailed that it was the only book I managed to lose my attention to in streaks, and I have listened to them all unabridged, on tape, at work.

Sure, her books are a bit overrated, but they are also well-written and entertaining. Rice gives our dark heroes so much humanity that one can't help being attracted by them enough to want to become one as well at times. Nowhere is this point made more concise than by her favorite character, Lestat. I wish mortal men were as cool and insightful as "the brat prince!" Great, imaginative fun. Frank Muller's narration of the audio books is second to none.

Fantastic Reading!!!.......2007-09-16

I'm not big on vampire books but Anne Rice writes in such a way that you truly believe they are real people with real lives and all the thoughts and feelings we all have. In addition, they struggle with the issues of immortality and there are many.

great books from anne rice.......2007-01-28

i bought these books for my teen she couldnt put them down till they were all read anne rice is a great author

Thought provoking but belaboured.......2006-09-29

I would certainly recommend anyone who has an interest in this genre to read these books. Rice raises some very interesting concepts from the mind of the vampire. My only gripe (and a friend feels the same way) is that Rice tends to ramble - padding out relatively meaningless stuff, or stuff that you've already gleaned the concept of after two lines. I found myself skipping paragraphs & pages, which was detrimental to the flow. With some judicious editing and condensing they would be worthy of 5 stars. The fourth book doesn't quite hold up to the stds set with the first three...might be worth finding the trilogy.

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an amazing vampire history book
Not Free SF Reader
The Great Modern Vampire Novel
A beginning that never ends!
Anne Rice Not only Rescued, but Ressurrected, the Vampire for All of Us

Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345337662
Release Date: 1991-09-13

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In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.

While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley

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Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
It is a novel only Anne Rice could write....
"Magnificent, compulsively readable."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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an amazing vampire history book.......2007-09-05

this is a beautifully written vampire book. its very atmospheric. everything was great. the only thing i wowld change is that there is a part near the middle-end of the book where louis the vamp dosent talk to or acknowledge the boy he is talking to for like 80 pages...

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

I can remember reading that one as an 8 year old, having scored it as a cheap 50c paperback from Woolworths, and very late at night, it was so lush and atmospheric, that it started to slightly convince you vampires were real, and that you wanted to go talk to the interviewer.

The Great Modern Vampire Novel.......2007-08-22

I will keep my review of INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE short, since I have very little to add to the many other fine reviews that have been posted already.

I really enjoyed INTERVIEW, but I will say that it's not a traditional "scary" horror novel. This is also not a fast-paced book with a lot of action and adventure. Instead, Rice concentrates much more energy on the psychological state of Louis, the central vampire character. She does a truly brilliant job of conveying to the reader a sense of Louis's moral anguish, as he is forced to deal with his immortality and the violent day-to-day reality of a vampire's lifestyle.

More than any other novel I've read, INTERVIEW explains what a vampire's life might really be like. It's a work of great psychological and emotional depth. Louis is not an easy character to spend time with, but I really felt a great deal of empathy for him.

Rice writes in a rather florid style, but she's very skilled in re-creating 18th and 19th century New Orleans. If you like books that create a vivid sense of place and time, INTERVIEW is a fine choice for that also.

Overall, I really loved INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, although I will admit that it's not for everyone. But I think anyone interested in the Vampire mythos should definitely give this novel a try, since it is a classic of the genre.

A beginning that never ends!.......2007-07-31

I'll be honest, I saw the movie long before I was able to get my hands on the novel. Since then, both have become all-time favorites in my mind and nothing has topped them.

I have always been a fan of a good novel from time to time, but nothing prepared me for the journey that I took upon reading the first installment of The Vampire Chronicles! Instead of comparing the similarities or differences between the novel and the movie, I found myself completely immersed in the novel for what it truly is, an epic work of craftsmanship that will leave you spellbound.

The story itself is told from the point of view of Louie, who throughout the chronicles, remains the most human of all the vampires. The interview, is his story. How he became a lost soul with "The Dark Gift" and how he still feels remorse for those he kills. Louie (instead of embracing the gift) still suffers from lonliness and unanswered questions of who and what he has become! His only companion is the man who made him, Lestat!

Enter, the character of Claudia. Perhaps the most compelling and saddening chracter of the novel. Claudia is just a child when she is made into a vampire, and outgrows her memories of her "real" childhood! She is the true sufferer, as her innocense is lost, but her life, never ends!

I could go on, but I think you should purchase this novel instead. Anne Rice has a way of writing that will have you hooked from the very beginning. It all starts with this novel, and there are many others that follow! You will find yourself part of this world, and not want to get out!

Anne Rice Not only Rescued, but Ressurrected, the Vampire for All of Us.......2007-07-20

Interview with the Vampire is the first and best of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. In it, a two hundred year old vampire recounts his early years after the light, and through his voice, the reader rides a wave of nightmarish delights, a soul-tempting excursion into evil. There's a quality about the dream Rice weaves; we can't tell if it's a good dream or a bad one, and whether we feel anger, pity,revulsion, dread, or envy towards the undead.

Rice does not conjure the absolute, linear horror of Stoker's Dracula, and she doesn't try to. She makes the reader complicit in the sin of the vampire by making it a thing of terrible beauty. Nor is it especially "hip" to be a vampire, at least not in the sense of "The Lost Boys" movie--her vampires are sophisticates, not prom kings, high society, not rock stars (at least not in this volume). "Interview" gives a whole new literal (and literary) meaning to the phrase "Eat the rich." Or perhaps we should say ... drink?

New vampire authors like myself owe Anne Rice for resurrecting a virtually dead subgenre. Vampire pop culture is everywhere today, the promise of the eternal night to tempt the darkened fantasies of guilty readers worldwide.

(This review has been posted by Marcus Damanda, author of the vampire book, "Teeth: a Horror Fantasy".

Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

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Vampire Chronicles 1-3
coffin box set
The Best
Interview With The Vampire
Sink your teeth into this...

Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)
Anne Rice
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0679410503
Release Date: 1992-11-17

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The ornate, casket-like packaging and neogothic graphic design of this immortal trilogy is eerily enticing on its own. But just lift the lid, slide the first tape from its ghostly sleeve, and you'll soon embrace the hypnotic realm of the undead.

Book 1, Interview with the Vampire, opens with the seductive purr of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stating, "I was a 25-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was 1791." And so our ultimate antihero, Louis, begins the elaborate retelling of his long, tortured life as a vampire. Winding through the ages, from New Orleans to Paris, we follow Louis and his undying mentor, Lestat, as they feed on humans, whet their carnal appetites, and uncover an underworld of vampire brethren.

Book 2, The Vampire Lestat, brings us up to date, with Lestat waking from his earthen slumber to join the ranks of rock superstardom before sitting down to share the tale of his own haunting initiation into the vampire world. Michael York (Cabaret) puts his wonderfully fluid, cosmopolitan voice to good use, adding a dash of sly humor to this fast-paced, satisfying blend of sex and blood and rock and roll.

Book 3, The Queen of the Damned, takes us back, all the way back to ancient Egypt, exposing the origins of the vampire way. Narrating in eerily serene and gracious tones, Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) leads us gently down this bloody path of immortal desires. David Purdham gives the voice of Lestat a wistful quality, tinged with an evil relish that exposes the master vampire's sanguine tastes.

Anne Rice has continued her Vampire Chronicles beyond these three novels, but that shouldn't make this collection any less tempting to either the undead initiate or certified vampire junkie. --George Laney

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Packaged in deluxe Coffin Package, this is a must for any Anne Rice fan - or the ideal start to introduce someone to the world of Anne Rice.

Coffin Package includes:
Interview with the Vampire (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by F. Murray Abraham)
The Vampire Lestat (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by Michael York)
The Queen of the Damned (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by Kate Nelligan)

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Vampire Chronicles 1-3.......2006-03-10

I would have preferred to have been able to buy these audio books on cd; however, they were unavailable. Since I had read them all so long ago, it was time to delve back into them. Buying audio books to bring on vacation, was the perfect idea! (I didn't have to worry about getting any suntan lotion on the pages!)

coffin box set.......2006-01-04

This coffin box Set Is a great addition to a collection of vampire Memorabilia . Open the lid (flap) to see who is inside. you can pick who is in the coffin, One is the child vampire and the other a dark haired male vampire.

The Best.......2000-09-25

Anne Rice is the best modern writer on vampires. I have read them all and she rocks. The coolest scenarios and she reads like an intelligent airport paperback book writer. Her writing goes down easy like a comic book. I have written a book on vampires too if you are interested. It's called Seamus and Emer. It's available on Amazon so take a look. Good Luck! Bye Bye!

Interview With The Vampire.......2000-09-10

I knew about Anne Rice, but I had never read any of her books before. I read Interview With The Vampire, and I couldn't put it down! It's one of the best books I've ever read. Now I'm reading the whole set. It was great!

Sink your teeth into this..........2000-07-07

... a fine set of Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. What a refreshing point of view and burning light to see vampires in. Rice gives us vampires with feelings - why shouldn't a vampire feel joy, pain and regret? Yes, bottom line is they are merciless killers, but this is the all-too often typecast image of vampires that Hollywood likes to betray. These immortals don't just sweep in with a dramatic flare of their capes (most of the time they don't even wear one), kill then leave - we experience their agony, hunger, happiness and turmoil before and after each kill. Anne Rice gives us so much more - imagine YOUR fears, regrets and hopes from your lifetime spread over an eternity. Would you really want immortality? What is right and what is wrong? Good and evil? The devil and God? Leave your humdrum life behind for a while and bury yourself (literally) in a world of fascinating, real characters in sumtuous, historic or sordid surroundings. Enjoy, but remember to put the lid back across when you're finished...

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Interview With The Vampire

Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: B000EZ3300

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1st edition/1st printing, Knopf, 1976, of author's first book. Black paper over boards with black cloth spine, gilt spine printing, red upper page edges, and gold foil dustjacket with red, black and white printing, author's photo on back panel.

Interview with the Vampire + The Vampire Lestat + The Queen of the Damned + The Tale of the Body Thief + Memnoch the Devil (THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES - Numbered, Signed Limited Edition, 5 Volume Matched Set)

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Interview with the Vampire + The Vampire Lestat + The Queen of the Damned + The Tale of the Body Thief + Memnoch the Devil (THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES - Numbered, Signed Limited Edition, 5 Volume Matched Set)

Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000CDIMWI

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Limited edition of 3000 copies including Interview With The Vampire signed by the author

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Interview with the Vampire

Manufacturer: Book Club
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Binding: Hardcover
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Vampire Lestat (Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Book)

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The Vampire Chronicles/The Queen of the Damned/The Vampire Lestat/Interview with the Vampire

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The Vampire Chronicals
Excellent... Edge-of-your-seat reading!
This is the best book I've ever read.
Delicious. A creative, expressive piece of art.
A wild ride.

The Vampire Chronicles/The Queen of the Damned/The Vampire Lestat/Interview with the Vampire
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Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)

ASIN: 0394581865

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The Vampire Chronicals.......2003-09-21

Of course the Vampire Chronicals has grown larger than these three books, but sometimes not for the better. These three are the best of the batch. It starts with "Interview" as Louis, a 200 year old vampire tells his life story to a young reporter. It is certainly the deepest, darkest, and more personal of the three, which was how Mrs. Rice was feeling at the time, as her young daughter had just died (comparable with Louis's heart brake when Claudia was killed). The next one is "Lestat". Lestat wakes up from an eighty year slumber and becomes a famous rock star in the tradition of Gene Simmons or Alice Cooper. But the majority of this book has to do with Lestat's education as a fledgling vampire in 18th centry France and his attempt to find the vampire teacher, Marius. In the third, "Queen", Lestat has angered the other vampires of the world by telling humans the legends and secrets of the vampires (disgised as music videos). As other blood drinkers are set to attack him, the Queen herself, the oldest and most powerful vampire in existance, saves Lestat, and offers him a position as her king. This book tells the origin of the vampire in early, pre-history Egypt.
This set of books sets up an interesting cast of charactors. they all represent some piece of humanity. Louis is loss and pain. Lestat is the devil may care lover of life who is a snob and shuns authority. Armand is the cold and distant object of beauty. Marius is the father figure they all obay, for the most part. There are others, like Claudia the willfull brat child.
This series dose not have as much action and violence as you'd expect from a horror novel, and they aren't really scary. They are more like a soap opera with ghosts and vampires (like a hipper version of "Dark Shadows"). There is a lot of meditation on the nature of good and evil, a lot of philosophy as to what it means to be powerful, and the need to kill, and endless moralizing. Religion is touched on briefly. Some people might find this fascinating, others endless whinning. It's like Plato, with murders here and there.

Excellent... Edge-of-your-seat reading!.......1998-10-22

These 3 books were amazing... a friend on-line pushed me into reading the first, and I eventually borrowed the second and third from my English teacher... I couldn't stop! Lestat, Louis.. they're wonderful characters. Marius, Pandora, the same. But Armand has always been my favourite. Always has, always will. I am absolutely AMAZED at the way Anne Rice writes, and I am drawn to her books like a pencil to paper!

This is the best book I've ever read........1998-08-12

It was great! These books were so wonderfully emotional and dark, I could practically see in my mind's eye Lestat and Louis, and I could feel the strength of the old ones.

Delicious. A creative, expressive piece of art........1998-07-13

Anne Rice has reached the ultimate boundary of thrills with the vampire chronicles. I felt I was one with the characters. Each page brought forth Anne Rice's imagination on paper. One of the best series of the decade. Diana.J

A wild ride........1998-04-08

The first three books of the vampire chronicles are the most exciting books that I've read in a long time. There's action, adventure, love, betrayal, and even a few lessons to be learned if you can read between the lines. Other books in the vampire chronicles don't compare to these three.

Blood Lust: Conversations With Real Vampires

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Very disappointing...

Blood Lust: Conversations With Real Vampires
Carol Page
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060163291

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Very disappointing..........2003-12-24

This is such an interesting subject matter, but there are not many books about it. If you just have a curiosity about vampires, I suppose it's a good source. The writing style, however, is no better than a third grader's, and makes the reading difficult at times.

Interview with the Vampire - Book I of the Vampire Chronicles

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Interview with the Vampire - Book I of the Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
Manufacturer: Recorded Books
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0788700650

Entrevista Con El Vampiro / Interview With the Vampire (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles.)

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It is very sexy, and thriller at the same time.
The greatest
I like these kind of books, it's about Vampire Lestad

Entrevista Con El Vampiro / Interview With the Vampire (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles.)
Anne Rice
Manufacturer: Aims Intl Books Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 8448000412

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The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their “dark gift” to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris.

Blurb in Spanish:Louis, un antiguo hacendado de ascendencia francesa desesperado por la muerte de su esposa e hijo, es un vampiro que decide contar su historia. Tanto invoca a la muerte que Lestat, un vampiro que vive desde hace cuatrocientos años, acude a su llamada y le convierte, por medio de un mordisco, en un ser despiadado e inmortal en contra de su propia voluntad.

Su única alegría será una niña, Claudia, a la que, paradojicamente, "salvará" de la muerte mordiéndola. Desde entonces, la historia pasa por diferentes estadios: la descripción de la "familia" de vampiros, el hastío de Louis y su inconformidad con su estado actual, la muerte de la niña rebelde o el enfrentamiento con el más viejo de los vampiros, Armand, que está enamorado de Louis.

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It is very sexy, and thriller at the same time........1999-11-01

I enjoyed reading the book, and then watching the movie. I think it would have been great if the director of the movie would have included the whole book in the movie. I just wish they make Vampire lestad, and then the whole chronicles.

The greatest.......1998-06-14

I love Interview with the vampire, actually its my favorite movie, i have seen it so many times that i can say each line by heart, and from my heart too. People often make me feel as if i were crazy. I say it is just because they will never feel the way i do about it. It entered to my heart and kept in my soul.

I like these kind of books, it's about Vampire Lestad.......1998-03-04

I wanted to know more about Anne Rice Vampires books.Lestad the vampire,but I like to read them in spanish ,that's my original language. Mildred Santana

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