The Tale of the Body Thief
In this book, Lestat is given the chance to be a mortal man again. A new character by the name of Raglan James begins by slowly stalking Lestat and giving him small hints about his offer through films and books on body switching... offering Lestat the chance to trade bodies and be mortal again.
Naturally, w/ Lestat's love of adventure and the lust to be human, against all other vampires warnings and the advice given to Lestat by his close friend, David Talbot (Superior General of the Talamasca), he makes the deal...
For three days Raglan is supposed to remain in Lestat's body and Lestat is allowed to be human. On the third night, they are set to meet to switch back.
However, Raglan never returns and Lestat is trapped in the mortal body of a young man... a body that has fallen very ill and stands harsh chances of recovery.
When Louis refuses to help Lestat, and Marius turns his back on him as well, Lestat is left w/ only his mortal friend David Talbot to track down the body thief and get his body back before Raglan does so much damage in Lestat's powerful body that the elder vampires would have to destroy it...
Memnoch the Devil
In Memnoch the Devil, we are introduced to God and the Devil themselves.
Memnoch, the name given to us by the devil himself, comes to Lestat to request that he come to work for him. That Lestat be Memnoch's "right hand" so to speak.
Throughout this book we are taken to Heaven, Hell, and told of the begining of time and how the world has evolved since then, step by step, from an archangel's point of view.
In return for just hearing the devil out, Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven and hell. Lestat is actually brought before God incarnate who nearly pleas w/ Lestat not to help the devil.
We go through time itself to see Jesus Christ actually carrying his cross, we see Veranica placing her veil to his face, leaving the imprint of Christ on it, the veil which Lestat is actually given by Christ himself.
Shortly after, we're taken to Hell, to see the lost souls of the world, and to the end of Memnoch's story and the point at which Lestat must make his choice... To escape and try to go back to his normal life, which after this will never be normal again... or to help the devil himself...?
The Vampire Armand
In this novel, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us Armand- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand first appeared in Intview w/ the Vampire, the first of the vampire chronicles.
Now, we go w/ Armand across the centuries to Kiev, Russia, where he was born- and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slaver. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaisance 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 upan Armand the gift of vampiric blood.
As the novel reaces to its climax, moving through secenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, 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.
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