The Queen of the Damned
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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First printing, hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Some soiling to the covers,board edges and the page edges, still a very good copy with clean text and tight binding in a near fine dust jacket (just a trace of edge wear). Now protected in an archival cover and no remainder marks. Third book in the Vampire Chronicles.
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- Title
- The Queen of the Damned
- Author
- Rice, Anne
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- near fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394558235
- ISBN 13
- 9780394558233
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 3 of 13: Vampire Chronicles
- Seller catalogs
- Science Fiction & Horror
Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:
- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . .
- The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . .
- Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and make "all myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause" . . .
These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed. Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.
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