The Tale of the Body Thief

In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale-everything he has come to believe and feel safe with-is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique-the mesmirizing-passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice. Copyright 1992 by Anne O'Brien Rice. Published by Ballantine Books.

Hardcover cover image published by Knopf. Jacket sculpture: The Rape of the Sabines by Giovanni da Bologna. Photography by Tatsuhiko Shimada/Photonica. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.