Anne Rice Libros

Una novela ambientada en una época y lugar fascinantes, por la célebre autora de las Crónicas Vampíricas. En el estado de Luisiana, antes del estallido de la guerra de Secesión, existió una casta muy peculiar. Sus miembros eran descendientes de los esclavos, pero llevaban también la sangre de los esclavistas franceses y españoles, que tenían por costumbre liberar a los hijos que tenían con sus concubinas negras. El atractivo que sus hermosas mujeres ejercían entre los blancos de Nueva Orleans acabó por convertirse en una leyenda… Esta historia está protagonizada por Marcel, un adolescente mestizo, y su hermana, la bellísima y vulnerable Marie.

Ramsés es inmortal. Pero ha bebido el elixir de la vida y se ha convertido en Ramsés el Maldito, condenado a recorrer la tierra para saciar deseos que nunca se verán satisfechos. La momia recobra la vida en el Londres eduardianto y regresa a el Cairo con la personalidad asumidad del doctor Ramsey, egiptólogo. Le persigue el recuerdo de su última reencarnación como amante de Cleopatra. Su anhelo por la Reina de Egipto le lleva a cometer un acto que devastará los corazones de quienes le rodean.

La segunda entrega de las Crónicas vampíricas tiene como protagonista a Lestat, un ser fascinante que, tras su primera aparición como estrella del rock, nos descubre su tormentoso pasado y su compleja personalidad. De su mano nos sumergimos en París dieciochesco y en su calidoscopio social, escenario donde se desarrolla su transformación en vampiro y en el que llega a adquirir un gran prestigio entre los pobladores del mundo sobrenatural. Sus ansias de saber y experimentar le empujarán a un extenso periplo a través del espacio y del tiempo magistralmente engarzado por las magníficas dotes narradoras de la autora, que combina a la perfección escenas vertiginosas con pasajes dedicados a mostrar la inquietante hondura psicológica de sus criaturas.

Con La Hora de las brujas, Anne Rice abre la seductora trilogía centrada en la familia Mayfair, en la que se entremezcla la brujería con una historia familiar que abarca cuatro siglos y salta de las desoladas tierras altas de Escocia a la bulliciosa Nueva Orleans. Fama, fortuna, tragedia y relaciones turbulentas están pautadas por un poderoso y letal espirítu. Michael Curry es un exitoso contratista profesional, pero sufre extraños sueños relacionados con su hogar ancestral, en Nueva Orleans. Tras una experiencia cercana a la muerte, desarrolla extraños poderes. La persona que le rescata es la doctora Rowan Mayfair, brillante neurocirujana y descendiente de una legendaria familia de dicha ciudad. Ambos se verán obligados a enfrentarse a su sorprendente herencia.

"La voz del diablo es la segunda entrega de «Las Brujas de Mayfair», la saga en la que la autora de Entrevista con el vampiro recuperaba el recurso de tomar voces de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana y conformar así un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor. Lasher es un espíritu demoníaco que se aprovecha de las Mayfair femeninas en su intento de procrear. Rowan Mayfair, reina del clan, ha dado a luz al hijo de Lasher y después ha desaparecido... «Al principio oía la voz de su padre. »"Emaleth", le susurraba junto al vientre de su madre mientras esta dormía. Luego le cantaba largas canciones sobre el valle de Donnelaith, el castillo y el lugar donde un día se encontrarían ambos. Le aseguró que nacería sabiendo todo cuanto él sabía. "Así somos nosotros", le dijo su padre en el rápido lenguaje que los otros no comprendían. »A los otros les sonaba como un murmullo o un silbido. Era su lengua secreta, pues eran capaces de oír unas sílabas pronunciadas tan rápidamente que los otros no captaban. Ambos se comunicaban por medio de ese lenguaje.»" -- publisher website

Asediado por los recuerdos, Marius siente que ha llegado el momento de revelar los secretos de su milenaria existencia. Este ser solitario e inmortal evoca sus experiencias de senador romano, entre druidas y como protector de Akasha y Enkil, reyes de los vampiros. Se detiene en su ampor por Pandora y en su tarea como mentor de Lestat. Rememora también la caída de Roma, su huida a Constantinopla, patria de la insaciable Eudoxia, y el regresto a la Italia renacentista.

This story unfolds through Louis's own words, detailing his journey through mortal and immortal life. He recounts his transformation into a vampire by the radiant yet sinister Lestat, reluctantly embracing the vampire existence. Louis's tale weaves through the streets of New Orleans, highlighting pivotal moments, including his encounter with the exquisite young child Claudia. Driven by a desire to comfort her, he makes her a vampire, inadvertently trapping her passionate spirit within a child's body. Their seemingly unbreakable bond leads them to settle in the opulent French Quarter, where they grapple with their identities and their shared hatred for Lestat. This animosity propels them on a quest across the globe in search of belonging and understanding. Their journey takes them to Europe and the Theatre des Vampires in Paris, where they meet the magnetic Armand, who introduces them to a broader vampire society. However, their quest for connection reveals unforeseen dangers. Originally conceived as a short story, the narrative evolved into a rich exploration of the tragic and triumphant experiences of its characters, reflecting the political and social changes across two continents. The novel introduces Lestat, a complex figure embodying attraction and revulsion, while delving into themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.

Con La hora de las brujas, Anne Rice abre la seductora trilogía centrada en la familia Mayfair, en la que se entremezcla la brujería con una historia familiar que abarca cuatro siglos y salta de las desoladas tierras altas de Escocia a la bulliciosa Nueva Orleans. Fama, fortuna, tragedia y relaciones turbulentas están pautadas por un poderoso y letal espíritu.Michael Curry es un exitoso contratista profesional, pero sufre extraños sueños relacionados con su hogar ancestral, en Nueva Orleans. Tras una experiencia cercana a la muerte, desarrolla extraños poderes. La persona que le rescata es la doctora Rowan Mayfair, brillante neurocirujana y descendiente de una legendaria familia de dicha ciudad. Ambos se verán obligados a enfrentarse a su sorprendente herencia.

Ramses es inmortal, vive a traves de los siglos. Pero ha bebido el elexir de la vida y se ha convertido en Ramses el Maldito, condenado a recorrer la tierra para saciar afanes que nunca vera satisfechos, de comida, de vino, de mujeres. De nuevo, Anne Rice se sirve de un personaje sobrehumanopara someterlo a la mas humana de las condiciones: la pasion. La momia recobra la vida en el Londres eduardiano y regresa a el Cairo con la personalidad asumida del doctor Ramsey, egiptologo. Lo persigue el recuerdo de su ultima reencarnacion como amante de Cleopatra. Su anhelo por la Reina de Egipto le lleva a cometer un acto que desvastara los corazones de quienes le rodean.

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.

Anne Rice nos ofrece la historia de Armand, el eterno joven agraciado con la cara de un ángel de Boticelli, que apareció por primera vez en la ya clásica Entrevista con el vampiro. Ahora acompañamos a Armand a través de los siglos desde el Kiev de su infancia, pasando por la antigua Constantinopla hasta la Venecia del Renacimiento. Aquí, en un magnífico palacio, Armand se verá emocional e intelectualmente cautivado por el vampiro Marius, un misterioso pintor que le acabará subyugando. Pero las fuerzas del mal entran en escena y Armand se ve forzado a un eterno vagar que le llevará al París del siglo XIX y, de allí, al Nuevo Orleans actual, donde volverá a reunirse con Lestat. A medida que la novela avanza por escenarios de lujo extravagante unas veces, de decadencia absoluta otras, Armand desvela los detalles de su turbulenta existencia.

Ramsés es inmortal, vive a través de los siglos. Pero ha bebido el elixir de la vida y se ha convertido en Ramsés el Maldito, condenado a recorrer la Tierra para saciar afanes que nunca verá satisfechos: de comida, de vino, de mujeres. De nuevo, Anne Rice se sirve de un personaje sobrehumano para someterlo a la más humana de las condiciones: la pasión. La momia recobra la vida en el Londres eduardiano y regresa a El Cairo con la personalidad asumida del doctor Ramsey, egiptólogo. Lo persigue el recuerdo de su última reencarnación como amante de Cleopatra. Su anhelo por la Reina de Egipto le lleva a cometer un acto que devastará los corazones de quienes le rodean.

La septima entrega de las Cronicas Vampiricas nos presenta la historia de Merrick, una bellisima descendiente de les gens de couleur libres, una casta orientada a las practicas del vudu y surgida en Nueva Orleans del mestizaje entre las mujeres africanas y los colonizadores franceses. La joven ignora que ha heredado los extraordinarios poderes que dieron fama a sus antecesoras, las brujas de Mayfair. A ese mundo de oscuros exotismos llega el vampiro David Talbor. Es el quien relata la fascinante trayectoria vital de Merrick y nos lleva desde la Nueva Orleans del pasado y del presente hasta la selva guatemalteca, y de las seculares ruinas mayas al corazon de civilizaciones todavia ignotas. Un relato cautivador en el que los fenomenos sobrenaturales se dan la mano en un baile de seduccion, muerte y renacimiento.

En Cántico de sangre, Lestat, quien fuera una vez epítome de la maldad, lucha ahora contra su propia condición de vampiro anhelando alcanzar la pureza, a la vez que se enfrenta a fantasmas, leyendas, secretos y el misterio de Taltos, mientras trata de reconducir el destino de su amada, Rowan Mayfair.

Quinn Blackwood, un rico y excéntrico joven convertido en vampiro, pide la ayuda de Lestat para librarse del celoso control a que le somete Goblin, su doppelgänger. Desde que Quinn entró en el reino de los muertos, Goblin, otrora su sombra fiel, se ha convertido en una amenaza para los seres cercanos al atractivo gentleman. Lestat, intrigado, le pide a Quinn que narre la historia de su vida. Éste recuerda su infancia en el seno de una familia muy peculiar y describe sus días en Blackwood Farm, la mansión de altas columnas y extensos jardines rodeada de zonas pantanosas en la que creció y ahora reside.

In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.” — People “Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Hypnotic . . . masterful.” — Cosmopolitan From the Paperback edition.

"Si con El don del lobo los lectores quedaron fascinados por el nuevo mundo, extraño y mítico, creado por Anne Rice, con Los lobos del invierno se verán transportados una vez más a la gran mansión de la escarpada costa de California, para seguir explorando la educación sobrenatural de su protagonista. Corre el mes de diciembre y los fuegos de roble arden en los majestuosos hogares de Nideck Point. Para Reuben Golding, ahora imbuido del don del lobo, esta Navidad promete ser como ninguna otra... De las sombras de la mansión surge un fantasma atormentado, implorante, incapaz de hablar pero no de abrazar y desear con cariño desesperado... Mientras Reuben se ve atrapado por las pasiones y anhelos de esta presencia espectral, se desvelan secretos asombrosos que hablan de un inframundo extraño, de espíritus centenarios que poseen sus propias historias antiguas y fantásticas y que hostigan con sus poderes oscuros..."--P. [4] of cover.

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real a family of witches-a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being."

Taltos es la tercera entrega de "Las Brujas de Mayfair", la saga en la que la autora de Entrevista con el vampiro recuperaba el recurso de tomar voces de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana y conformar así un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor. "Taltos" es el nombre con el que se denomina a la criatura que nace del cruce entre dos brujas humanas que poseen un cromosoma adicional. Casi un monstruo, un taltos es capaz de comportarse de forma bestial y de alimentar un impulso sexual extraordinario. Después del primer día, Rowan no volvió a pronunciar palabra. Se pasaba el día sentada bajo la encina en un sillón de mimbre blanco, con los pies apoyados en un cojín, o simplemente sobre la hierba. Contemplaba la tapia, las flores o los tejos. Jamás miraba el suelo. Quizás había olvidado que justo debajo de sus pies, había una sepultura doble, cubierta de una espesa hierba que crecía rápidamente gracias a las abundantes lluvias y al potente sol primaveral de Louisiana. -- publisher website

In the fifth Vampire Chronicle, Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and wants something from him. While torn betwen his vampire world and his passion for Dora, Lestat is sucked in by Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil himself. Memnoch presents Lestat with unimagined opportunities: to witness creation, to visit purgatory, to be treated like a prophet. Lestat faces a choice between the Devil or God. Whom does he believe in? Who does he serve? What are the element of religious belief? Lestat finds himself caught in a whirlpool of the ultimate choice

Durante todo el año, los lugareños ahorraban cuanto podían para el dia en que, por unas cuantas monedas, podían adquirir un esclavo altivo, un príncicipe elegido para servir, adiestrado y preparado para la corte, que entonces durante todo el verano debía de obedecer a cualquier humilde sirvienta o mozo de cuadra que pujara lo suficiente en la subasta pública. El jefe de patrulla no podía evitar anticiparse al final del verano e imaginar a estos mismos jóvenes ahora quejosos y forcejeantes, en el momento de ser devueltos, tas concienzudos castigos, con las cabezas inclinadas y las bocas calladas, en la más completa sumisión.

"La Roma del siglo XV se alza imponente, con sus grandes domos y sus jardines colgantes, sus altas torres y sus cruces erguidas bajo una siempre cambiante capa de nubes. Esta es la ciudad de Miguel Ángel y Rafael, de la Santa Inquisición y de León X, hijo de un Médici, ahora ocupante del trono papal. A este lugar es llamado Toby O'Dare, antiguo asesino a sueldo. El ángel Malaquías requiere su presencia para resolver un terrible crimen por envenenamiento y descubrir la verdad acerca de un inquieto espíritu diabólico que se resiste a abandonar la tierra. O'Dare pronto se verá envuelto en tramas lóbregas y complejas, y en el punto de mira de una amenaza más tenebrosa aún, a medida que el terror eclesiástico estrecha el cerco en torno a él. Embarcado en un poderoso viaje de redención, O'Dare se conecta de nuevo con su propio pasado, con asuntos tanto oscuros como cristalinos, a la vez feroces y tiernos; se encuentra con la promesa de la salvación y emerge con una visión renovada, más profunda y rica, sobre el amor"--Page [4] of cover

Continuing the epic of the Mayfair witches, this brilliantly imagined tale takes listeners on a wondrous journey back through the centuries.

For the first time, the complete Mayfair Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice are collected together in a stylish three-book set--the inspiration for the hit television series. In this mesmerizing series, Anne Rice demonstrates her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend: The Witching Hour: A hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult that introduces a great dynasty of witches--a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. Lasher: The beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. Taltos When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers.

The "New York Times" bestselling first and second volumes in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles now join Ballantine's monthly "Special Low Price" mass market reissue program.

The mother of all vampires, Akasha, awakens after a 6,000 year slumber when she hears Lestat the vampire's music about her. She elevates herself to the level of the gods and vows to destroy Lestat.

The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Witness the confessions of a vampire. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. QUEEN OF THE DAMNED Akasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. --back cover

The vampire world is in crisis. Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities across the globe, forcing a host of familiar characters must put aside their differences and fight for their survival. There's Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; and even the mysterious absent Lestat. Together, they embark on a search to discover who--or what--the Voice is, and discover the secret of its desires.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?

*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..." At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty powers of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.

Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. Whispers of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of his family and the weight of his great destiny, those around him wait for some sign of the path he will take.

The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half men.

A pharaoh made immortal by a powerful elixir, Ramses the Great served as counselor and lover to Egypt's most influential rulers before awakening in Edwardian England. Having defeated both human and supernatural foes, he has found love with Julie Stratford, the daughter of the archaeologist who discovered his tomb. As a world war looms, Ramses and other resurrected immortals face their greatest challenge yet. Russian assassins, armed with immense power, are determined to eliminate those who loved Lawrence Stratford. These assassins wield a supernatural force that can animate statues. Ramses, along with allies like Cleopatra and Bektaten, must confront this threat while uncovering the origins of a great weapon linked to an ancient Egyptian ritual meant to humble pharaohs before Osiris, the god of the underworld. Their journey will take them across stormy seas and into northern Russia's forests, where they will navigate a terrifying clash of political ambitions and religious fervor driven by a Godlike power. The true answers they seek lie beyond the boundary between life and death, in realms that challenge even the imagination of an immortal like Ramses.

In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what hes about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic landscape that Rice has made his own.

Beauty's adventures in the hypnotic realm of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves towards its conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, seductive and erotic prose that intensifies Beauty's secret world.

Internationally bestselling author, Anne Rice, has written twenty-eight novels - magnificent tales of other worldly beings that explore the realms of good and evil, love and alienation: each a reflection of her own moral journey.

“I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance . . . I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light . . . And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me . . . ” Thus begins a lyrical, haunting novel, a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins set in fifteenth-century Rome, a city of domes, rooftop gardens, and towering crosses beneath shifting clouds. Amidst the backdrop of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Holy Inquisition, Toby O’Dare, a former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to solve a poisoning crime and uncover the truth behind a haunting by a restless spirit—a diabolical dybbuk. As O’Dare navigates dark plots and threats, the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. His journey of atonement reconnects him with his own past, revealing matters both light and dark, fierce and tender, and offering a deeper vision of love and the promise of salvation.

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

In Israel, in the turbulent first century, a baby is born to a humble Jewish family - but to a great destiny. But on Herod's death, they decide to return home to Israel, to Galilee, a troubled land under Roman occupation, at a time of chaos and turmoil, insurrection and confusion...

Anne Rice's legendary 'Vampire Chronicles' immersed us in the mythology, lives and loves of a motley crew of undead; they defined a genre. And now she has another age-old story in her sights: the terrifying werewolf ... The werewolf is the classic monster of horror fiction - dark, gothic, with supernatural depth and power - but here it is reimagined and reinvented with all Anne Rice's supernatural sympathy and inventiveness, as a romantic being, a potentially tragic figure bestowed with the gift of transformation and transcendence. Only Anne Rice could make us wonder if it's possible to love a man-beast but, in The Wolf Gift's hero Reuben, we have a brand new hero for a brand new audience. The vampire is dead ... 2012 is the year of the werewolf.

A famous children's book illustrator is seduced by a teenage runaway with a mysterious past.

Welcome to the club: Eden - there to satisfy your deepest desires, if you can afford to indulge them. Mysterious, elegant, sparkling in the Caribbean sun, pulsating in the velvet nights, the champagne never stops flowing and the rich and beautiful play games of dominance and submission.

In "Beauty’s Kingdom," Anne Rice, as A. N. Roquelaure, continues the Sleeping Beauty series. After Queen Eleanor's death, Beauty and Laurent return to claim the throne, advocating for voluntary erotic servitude. The novel explores themes of desire and ecstasy, appealing to both longtime fans and new readers of erotica. Intended for mature audiences.

This story begins with a murder on modern-day Fifth Avenue in New York and reaches back across the centuries to an equally ruthless Old Testament world. Through the hero, Azriel, it explores the pogroms, the diaspora, arcane mysteries of the Kabbalah, the Fall, and the nature of good and evil.

Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures—a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula—setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. Against a backdrop of the wonders—both sacred and profane—and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

At the center of the story is Toby O'Dare, known as Lucky the Fox, a notorious contract killer living under various aliases. Once a man of promise, he now exists as a soulless figure, taking orders from a mysterious figure referred to as 'The Right Man.' The narrative begins in present-day Riverside, California, where Lucky finds solace at the Mission Inn, a place where he can drop his disguises. However, he is soon tasked with another assassination assignment. Amidst his grim reality, a mysterious seraph appears, offering him a chance to save lives instead of taking them. Lucky, who grew up in New Orleans with an alcoholic mother and a murdered father, once dreamed of becoming a priest, seeking refuge in rituals, history, and music. Now, he seizes this unexpected opportunity. Transported back to thirteenth-century England, Lucky enters a perilous world where Jews, despised and accused of heinous crimes, live under constant threat. As he navigates this treacherous landscape, his journey unfolds from medieval villages to the cities of London and Paris, evolving into a tale of danger, loyalty, betrayal, selflessness, and love.

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

ELIGIBLE! They have been summoned to London to enjoy the "delights" of the Season, yet neither Theodora Wooton-Devereux nor Lord Nicholas Faringdon is an enthusiastic participant in the game of love.

From hatching and growing feathers to finally taking flight independently, Baby Bird grows and finds the courage to leave Mommy Birds nest. Mommy Bird urges caution, but Baby Bird is all too excited and quickly flies away high into the sky and begins to explore, soaring above the trees and rocketing over neighboring towns. He finds himself excited by all the noises and new things he sees as he wanders and meanders about using his new sense of freedom. His only destination in mind is one where he can discover more to fill the curiosity in his head that has been bubbling up since he was born in his nest, waiting for the day he could

Stanley is a lonely stinkbug who cannot seem to fit in, at his school, the St Galgani's School for Insects. Every time he gets nervous he FLAARPS and lets out a huge cloud of putrid, green odor!With this problem on his hands, he has no idea how he is going to ask his crush, Iris Papilio Ulysses, a beautiful and remote butterfly, to prom, as he only admires her from afar.Feeling down one afternoon, he has a strange conversation with the school janitor who gives him some mysterious advice about how to find answers to his life questions of how to fight bullies, gain courage, identify true friends, and learn how to love who you truly are.In a strange twist of fate, the janitor embarks Stanley and his friend Valerie, who is also a stinkbug, on an epic quest. Stanley and Valerie get caught up in this bizarre adventure that changes their lives forever.

In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice. From the Hardcover edition.

Supporting Strategy develops the concept of the strategic development process. The book begins by describing a balanced process for strategy development, spanning direction setting, strategy creation, rehearsal, evaluation and choice, leading to a continuous process of adopting strategic initiatives. It then goes on to present a practical collection of frameworks, methods and models which both individually and in combination can be used to support strategy. The collection drama theory, visioning methods, problem structuring methods, resource based view of strategy, SWOT / TOWS analysis, system dynamics, agent based modelling, scenario planning, decision and risk analysis, financial evaluation, real options, robustness analysis and performance measurement. This is a contributed work with original content written fro the book from leading academics in the field, including Maureen Meadows, Robert Berry, Jim Bryant, Adrian Caldart, Alberto Franco, Giles Hindle, Nigel Howard, Martin Kunc, Abhijit Mandal, Gilberto Montibeller, John Morecroft, Martin Murtland, Fernando Oliveira, and Efstathios Tapinos.

New York è stretta dalla morsa dell'inverno e sommersa dalla neve. Lestat è sulle tracce di Dora, la bella e carismatica figlia di un boss della droga che lui ha ucciso; una donna che come nessun altro mortale suscita in lui sentimenti di tenerezza. Combattuto tra l'istinto vampiresco e uno slancio d'amore per la ragazza, Lestat si confronta con gli avversari più pericolosi che abbia mai conosciuto. Viene rapito dal misterioso Memnoch, che sostiene di essere il Diavolo, e che lo porta fuori dal mondo. E' invitato ad assistere allo spettacolo della Creazione e viene poi trasportato, come gli antichi profeti, nel regno dei Cieli e accompagnato nel Purgatorio. Sarà condotto nella Terra della Morte e dovrà confrontarsi con Dio e con il Diavolo.

Bereits als kleines Mädchen wird sie von dem Vampir Lestat verwandelt und lebt fortan mit ihren beiden Vampir-Vätern Louis de Pointe du Lac und Lestat de Lioncourt auf einem herrschaftlichen Anwesen. Viele Jahre des vollkommenen Glückes vergehe, bis sich allmählich Unzufriedenheit bei Claudia einstellt, weil sie von jedem wie ein kleines Kind behandelt wird, obwohl sie doch inzwischen schon reich an »Lebenserfahrung« ist! Mit der Unzufriedenheit steigt auch ihr Verlangen nach Blut… Claudia – Waise, Tochter, Opfer, Monster…

La saga des sorcières Mayfair nous entraîne dans l'univers ensorcelant des vieilles légendes celtes, dans le monde troublant, sensuel et passionné des mystérieuses amours entre les humains et les esprits. Parfaitement adaptées au XXe siècle, protégées par leur colossale fortune, les sorcières Mayfair ont quitté la lointaine Ecosse et cessé de pratiquer la magie — sauf exception ! — pour vivre dans le luxe et la douceur d'une ville à moitié française au charme langoureux : La Nouvelle-Orléans. Mais on n'est pas impunément dotées de tempéraments de feu et de pouvoirs exceptionnels... Un jour, surgit un passé oublié, tout de tendresse et de poésie, que les sorcières doivent choisir de protéger ou de détruire. La violence et la mort font alors brutalement irruption dans leur existence, les forçant à réagir...

Risvegliatosi da un sonno millenario, il vampiro Thorne è in cerca di una guida che lo reintroduca nel mondo attuale. Il destino gli fa incontrare Marius, antico mentore di Lestat e amante di Pandora. Si chiamava Thorne e da secoli dormiva in una caverna tra i ghiacci. Finché un giorno il suo sonno millenario fu lacerato da urla di orrore e di morte: si era risvegliata una regina che proclamava di racchiudere in sé il Sacro Nucleo della sua stirpe e aveva cominciato ad annientare tutti i bevitori di sangue della Terra. Thorne, grazie alle sue doti medianiche, avvertì le loro grida, attraverso i loro occhi vide la crudeltà con cui la malvagia creatura li eliminava e decise che era giunto il momento per lui di ritornare nel mondo. Doveva fermare quell'orrore, e per farlo doveva trovare lui, l'immortale. E lo incontrò in una fumosa taverna: Marius, antico mentore di Lestat e amante di Pandora, il vampiro che per secoli aveva protetto i Sacri Genitori della loro razza dannata, il solo in grado di spiegargli ogni cosa sin dall'inizio, benché sapesse che la conoscenza non avrebbe potuto, in ogni caso, garantirgli la salvezza'.

Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

Stephen King, Anne Rice, Richard Laymon, Ray Bradbury, Riger Zelazny e molti altri maestri della narrativa dell'orrore si cimentano in queste pagine con una delle figure più inquietanti del nostro immaginario orrorifico: il Vampiro. Dopo la pubblicazione del Dracula di Bram Stoker il mito del Principe delle Tenebre ha conquistato definitivamente l'attenzione del grande pubblico. E' vero comunque che storie di vampiri erano già state scritte prima del capolavoro di Stoker. Sono proprio questi primi esempi ad aprire l'antologia, che prende poi in esame i celebri film nati sulla scia dei racconti, e si chiude con una selezione di alcune tra le tante storie brevi scritte negli ultimi anni che hanno aperto al genere nuove possibilità.

E' la solitudine, la "maledizione" che si impadronisce di Lestat, il vampiro immortale, il principe incontrastato del tenebroso universo dei morti viventi. Lestat avverte dolorosamente la "maledizione" della sua solitudine e desidera rinascere come mortale, liberandosi quindi del suo corpo di "non-morto" e impadronendosi di un corpo "vivo". Intraprende così un viaggio che lo porterà da Miami al deserto del Gobi, da Amsterdam alla giungla amazzonica, fino all'incontro cruciale con l'unico uomo che può soddisfare il suo desiderio, Raglan James, il Ladro di Corpi. Più sinistro e malvagio di un demone, il Ladro di Corpi si impadronisce con l'inganno del corpo vampiresco di Lestat, il quale, rinchiuso come anelava nel corpo mortale, scopre...