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Click to view full description | 1. | Rice, Anne Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)
Knopf October 28, 200 Hardcover; w/j used: excellent condition
For her 25th fan-pleasing outing, Rice reunites some of her most popular cr eations and, for the first time since Memnoch the Devil (1995), lets the Va mpire Lestat "write" the book. Taking up where last year's Blackwood Farm e nded, the now-doppelganger-free Quinn Blackwood and Lestat save Quinn's tru e love, the witch Mona Mayfair, from certain death by making her an immorta l. In his effort to attain sainthood, Lestat must deal with a lot of metaph ysical angst. The opulent Blackwood estate and its spooky swamps, as well a s New Orleans and a Caribbean isle, provide the settings for many elegant c ostume changes as the exquisite vampiric triumvirate gleefully suck several deserving victims dry and lay waste to dozens of a drug lord's minions. Th e vampirisation of young Mona, a true child of our times, gives Rice a dyna mic new vampire personality with whom to play. Writing as if her blood-inke d quill were afire, Rice seems truly possessed by her Brat Prince of darkne ss as she races through the story. She sometimes slights members of the vas t supporting cast, both dead and alive, but neatly ties up all their loose ends. The complete unification of the Mayfair witch saga with that of the V ampire Chronicles provides either a befitting end or a new beginning for th e Queen of the Vampires.
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| 2. | Rice, Anne Lasher
Knopf September 12, 1 Hardcover; w/j used; very good
At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of t he coven, who must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistable demon know n as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws u s through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of spiritua l aspiration and passion.
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| 3. | Rice, Anne Merrick (Vampire Chronicles)
Knopf October, 2000 Hardcover used; both book/jacket very good
Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark i n New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroo n beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette danci ng to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Wit ches book series. It is Louis who brings about the collision of the fang and voodoo universes. Louis made Claudia a vampire in Rice's classic Interview with the Vampire, in which she was destroyed, and now he's obsessed with raising her ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the beyond. (Claudia physically resembles Rice's young daughter who died of a blood-related illness. Rice nearly died of a diabetic coma in 1998, and writing Merrick turned her excruciating recovery into an exhilarating burst of creativity).
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| 4. | Rice, Anne Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires
Knopf March 2, 1998 Hardcover hardcover w/dustjacket; good
Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attac ked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so f eared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emoti on which claim a superiority to reason and law." Pandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (w ho later inducted Rice's famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Ro man girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates t he sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical wor ld. Pandora is more like Robert Graves's sublime I, Claudius than Rice's Th e Complete Vampire Chronicles. Yet Pandora is a logical extension of Rice's work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice's 1997 novel Violin. Now, Violin is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain." Pandora is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irra
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| 5. | Rice, Anne Taltos
Knopf September 19, 1 Hardcover Hardcover; excellent
: Lives of the Mayfair Witches In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence , this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the ce nturies to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypn otic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Amazon.com Author Profile Read about the author.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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| 6. | Rice, Anne The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Ballantine Books May 6, 1989 Trade Size Pap used; good
InThe Mummy Anne Rice weaves the same magic for the world and history of mu mmies that she previously did for the worlds and mythologies of vampires an d witches. Ramses the Great lives, but having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell certain mummy hungers that can never be satisfied!
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| 7. | Rice, Anne The Tale of the Body Thief
Knopf October 4, 1992 Hardcover Hardcover; excellent
STATED FIRST EDITION; SIGNED "TO BARB" ANNE RICE; The Vampire Chronicles It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
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