The Vampire Lestat

Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!’

Lestat: a vampire – but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stage-struck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the Rome of Augustus and the Britain of the Druids, from the demonic Egypt of prehistory to fin-de-siecle New Orleans, to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom as, pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across the world and time for the secret of his own dark immortality.