Vampire chronicles

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

Lestat, in the midst of a transformation that has him struggling with his vampirism and longing for goodness and purity, agrees to help his beloved Rowan Mayfair, who is being driven to the brink of madness by old secrets.

Armand recounts his life starting with the ruined city he lived in as a child, and while he is there, he meets the great vampire Marius who makes him choose between the life he knows, and the mystery and immortality of the life of a vampire.

Almost immortal vampire David Talbot, having gone to Merrick to plead with her to raise the ghost of the dead vampire child Claudia thus easing the guilt of his friend and fellow vampire Louis, instead finds himself in the grip of an obsession with the powerful witch.

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.