The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

The Vampire Lestat is the second installment in Anne Rice’s iconic The Vampire Chronicles, first published in 1985. A bold, seductive, and philosophical novel, it reimagines the events of Interview with the Vampire from the perspective of the infamous antihero, Lestat de Lioncourt.

Part gothic horror, part existential memoir, the novel traces Lestat’s transformation from mortal aristocrat to immortal vampire, as he grapples with love, power, immortality, and what it means to be truly alive.