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, and cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood.
A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth the education of the vampire.
Chicago Tribune Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.
Washington Post If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.
Boston Globe A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving.
Hartford Courant From the Paperback edition."
-A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth-the education of the vampire.---Chicago Tribune
-Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.---Washington Post
-If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.---Boston Globe
-A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving.---Hartford Courant
From the Paperback edition.
"A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth-the education of the vampire."--Chicago Tribune
"Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable."
--Washington Post "If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream."
--Boston Globe "A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving."
--Hartford Courant From the Paperback edition.