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, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination ...sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'.

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.

在描述自 18 世紀末到 20 世紀近兩百年間吸血鬼們愛慾糾纏的《夜訪吸血鬼》一書中，主角之一的黎斯特英俊而泠酷；到了《吸血鬼黎斯特》，他更成為主角中的主角。身為法國大革命前的一名風流貴族，搖身一變成為1980年代的搖滾歌星；他穿越時空四處尋覓同類，努力探詢自身長年不死的神奇奧祕，一段驚心動魄經歷構築了魔幻、恐怖、複雜的精彩故事，將引領讀者身歷其境、無法呼吸。 《吸血鬼黎斯特》一書是安．萊斯「吸血鬼系列」的第二部（前一部為《夜訪吸血鬼》）。黎斯特是此極富想像力小說中的主要人物，曾是法國大革命前的一個風流貴族，如今搖身一變成為1980年代的搖滾歌星。他穿越時光歲月，努力想弄清楚自己長年不死的神奇奧秘，他那驚心動魄的傳奇經歷構成了魔幻恐怖複雜的精彩故事。 目 錄 ．城裡週六晚， 20 世紀1984年 ．第一部　雷利歐熠熠上昇 ．第二部　梅格能傳奇 ．第三部　侯爵夫人的臨終聖餐 ．第四部　幽冥子孫 ．第五部　吸血鬼阿曼德 ．第六部　在魔鬼之路，從巴黎到開羅 ．第七部　古老的法術，古老的玄祕 ．後記 ．夜訪吸血鬼 ．戴歐尼斯在舊金山，1985年

"A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem." THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."--USA Today "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."--The Washington Post Book World "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."--Playboy "[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."--The Seattle Times

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire , the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul. From the Trade Paperback edition.