lestat (fictitious character)

The story of the vampire Lestat through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.

Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire Lestat.

The vampire world is in crisis. Vampires are proliferating out of control and a strange Voice has awakened the Old Vampires, sending them on killing sprees in major cities around the world to destroy the maverick vampires. As Louis, Armand, David Talbot, the Talamasca, and others try to discover the source of the Voice, Lestat, the vampire rebel, is conspicuously absent.

The vampire Lestat is taken by Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation, and is taken into the heavenly realm and into Purgatory, where he must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God, and then he must decide which, if either, he will serve.

Presents the story of the vampire Lestat through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.

Akasha, mother of all vampires, has been awakened from her 6,000 year sleep and elevates herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of gods.

Lestat, vampire hero, enchanter, and seducer of mortals embarks on a dangerous enterprise when he begins to question his vampire rationale.

Until now Armand has played a small role in the Vampire Chronicles. Here he assumes center stage, relating his five hundred years of life to fledgling vampire David Talbot, who plays amanuensis to Armand as he did to Lestat.

The story of the vampire Lestat through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.