The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's the Vampire Chronicles - Softcover

Ramsland, Katherine; Rice, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345397398 ISBN 13: 9780345397393

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1995

Synopsis

Hundreds of entries discuss a wide range of subjects related to Anne Rice's series of vampire novels, encompassing information on characters, themes, locales, historical background, and symbolism in the novels. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

Katherine Ramsland began her career as a writer with Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice, and has since published 59 books, including the bestselling The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice&;s The Vampire Chronicles. She holds graduate degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, criminal justice, and philosophy. She teaches forensic psychology and criminal justice at DeSales University.

From the Inside Flap

aning of The Vampire Chronicles is still unfolding for me, and is as much connected to God as to the Devil, as much connected to pleasure as to pain. That the books are entertainment seems a given, and for that I'm grateful. That they can be seen as a religious journey is also clear. I am immersed in the questions, and praying for the answers. Lestat, c'est moi. I want you to love all of my characters. I am, in the writing of these and other novels, as ambitious as Dickens. I want everybody to cry when Claudia dies, just like they did for Little Nell."

-- Anne Rice

February 8, 1995

Interview with the Vampire. The Vampire Lestat. The Queen of the Damned. The Talc of the Body Thief Memnoch the Devil. With her bestselling, epic saga, Anne Rice has reinvented the legend and literature of one of fiction's most popular and captivating archetypes. Now, Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice's biographer, has completely revised and updated the ultimate reference guide to the

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345397398
• ISBN 13: 9780345397393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 581