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.

“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

还是那个莱斯特吗？鬈发金黄如火，瞳仁幽深似海，笑容魅惑如故。如果看不到日出，再绚烂的色彩也无法将他的欲望描绘，他渴望崇高、纯洁和真爱。跨越千年，洞穿数不尽的魑魅魍魉，解救痛苦不堪的灵魂，见证基督的存在……带着圣徒的心，他终将何去何从？ 吸血鬼是西方世界里最诱人、最神秘、最浪漫的传说人物，因为它身上具有一切不可思议的魅力：高贵、美丽、永生不死。西方历代文人写下了大量的诗歌剧本来表达对吸血鬼即向往又恐惧的心情，如拜伦、科尔律支、济慈，就连大仲马、狄更斯这样的大家也写过相关的作品。其中，最为经典的当数斯托克的《德拉库拉》和安妮·赖斯的吸血鬼系列。《血颂》是安妮·赖斯的吸血鬼系列最新的一本：莱斯特仍然穿着他华美的衬衫，精致的外套，袖口还有手工缝制的蕾丝，他伸出手，手中有黑色的火焰，那是黑色魔法。他仍然给予别人他的血，造出他喜欢的新生儿……

颇具人性的吸血鬼莱斯特有幸遇上了好人戴维和格伦琴,但不幸的是，他也遭遇了坏人詹姆斯。詹姆斯设下圈套盗走了莱斯特的万能鬼体并到处兴风作浪。在所有同类不愿对莱斯特施以援手的情况下,戴维帮助他收复“复地”并消灭了坏人詹姆斯。 本书作者安妮·赖斯在一次访谈中说,“本书最终成了一中无比生动的小说,它给我带来了极大的欢乐……我不得不坦白,对本书的过分热爱导致我在写作时不顾一切,致使本书的故事情节过于曲折。”

新奥尔良，欢迎光临布莱克伍德庄园。 象牙色的巨大廊柱，空旷富丽的厅堂，绚烂飘香的花园，漆黑鬼魅的沼泽。这是奎因·布莱克伍德和精灵鬼魂的世界。 从童年到成人，从人类到不死幽灵，从远古的庞贝到现代的那不勒斯，请跟随奎因，跨越时空，跨越地域，揭开布莱克伍德庄园的惊天秘密。 赖斯以18世纪末的新奥尔良的时空背景为叙述原点，上下挪移，横越法国大革命时期的混乱失序、中世纪的阴沉动荡、罗马时代的狂欢飨宴，直逼古埃及王朝的残酷壮丽全景，编织出一幅纵横历史，上至远古，下至20世纪末的群魔绣帷，承载了超自然国度的奢靡，绝望与狂梦。

路易是一名年轻的法裔美国青年，在失去了亲爱的弟弟之后，于自责和绝望中被莱斯特变为吸血鬼。路易一直无法面对吸血鬼血腥杀戮的现实，莱斯特于是将年仅5岁的小姑娘克劳迪娅也变为吸血鬼，迫使路易为了照顾克劳迪娅而杀人。克劳迪娅终因无法忍受莱斯特的奴役与控制而杀了莱斯特，并与路易去寻找其他的吸血鬼同伴，但最终路易失去了克劳迪娅，孤零零地永生着。