“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” – People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. "Frightening, sensual." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. From the Hardcover edition.

In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.

《少年吸血鬼阿曼德》（1988）為安．萊絲「吸血鬼紀事」的第六部。（前五部分別為《夜訪吸血鬼》、《吸血鬼黎斯特》、《天譴者的女王》、《肉體竊賊》、《惡魔蔓諾克》。） 擁有少男外貌與永恆青春的阿曼德，五百年的年華流轉。情節綜合古今，場景橫跨歐亞美各地。（君士坦丁堡、威尼斯、基輔羅斯、巴黎、紐約、紐奧爾良。） 在吸血鬼系列之前出版的小說中，阿曼德只是一個小角色。他外型如天使般俊秀，但性格冷酷，心思細膩而愛恨分明。在本書中，阿曼德成為主角，向吸血鬼大衛‧泰柏特敘述自己五百年來的生活種種。阿曼德成為吸血鬼時，約在十六世紀初，當時年約17歲，身高五呎六吋。他在基輔時本名安特烈，之後被馬瑞斯稱為阿曼狄歐（為上帝所愛的人），接著再被亞麗珊卓取名為阿曼德。 他原是出生於基輔羅斯貧苦鄉村的男孩安特烈，被父親強拉外出打獵卻被土耳其人俘虜、賣給妓院。儘管被加以威逼利誘，但他始終拒絕出賣自己的肉體，在幾乎瀕死的情況下，吸血鬼馬瑞斯把他從地獄中解救出來，卻也使這位俊秀美少年成為同類，從此過著五百年游移於黑暗之中的異界生活。 馬瑞斯稱阿曼德為阿曼狄歐，他與馬瑞斯的學徒男孩們共同學習文藝武術，浸淫於文藝復興的藝術中。他曾於瀕死之際，遊歷天界，體驗到愛即一切；而在基輔的歲月中，他是個天才畫師，聖像對他有深遠意義。阿曼德帶有純真的聖徒之心，以及深沈旺盛的虔誠信仰…… 1499年馬瑞斯遭吸血族攻擊，為火焰吞噬。侍奉撒旦的吸血鬼領袖桑提諾救了阿曼德。阿曼德經過折磨後，加入桑提諾及亞麗珊卓，經過傳承，最後他前往巴黎領導當地吸血族，此時名字由阿曼狄歐改為阿曼德。18世紀時黎斯特出場，吸血鬼劇場誕生。1870年路易斯從美洲前來巴黎。阿曼德愛上路易斯。之後阿曼德愛上了少年記者丹尼爾。阿曼德曾經設立無邪者的巴黎巢穴以及夜島，歷經天譴者的女王大屠殺…… 黎斯特愛戀上人類朵拉，歷經被吸出地球大氣層；而阿曼德則是追尋聖容而奔日，被焚燒但未亡。接著出現在在紐約，解救了人類西貝耶和小班杰……黎斯特現今陷入沉睡中，他親睹過天堂與地獄，實情為何？聖帕，上帝的容顏如何影響阿曼德？在歷經種種試驗與磨難，阿曼德重拾信仰，也從仰望馬瑞斯的學生蛻變為引導他人的導師。

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