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Its the present day. Toby ODareaka Lucky the Foxis a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. Hes a soulless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted when a mysterious stranger, a seraph, offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. ODare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear. In this primitive setting, ODare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.

En esta segunda entrega de las "Crónicas Vampíricas" descubrimos la vida del enigmático Lestat, a quien conocimos en Entrevista con el vampiro. Inmortal y sediento de sangre humana, Lestat ansía descubrir el secreto de su inmortalidad. Eso le llevara a recorrer un variado espectro de lugares y entornos sociales que hace de la suya una apasionante biografia: desde el lascivo Paris del siglo XVIII hasta la Roma de Augusto y la Bretaña de los druidas; desde el Egipto satanico de la prehistoria hasta el mundo frenetico de las estrellas del rock... practicamente toda la historia. "Soy el vampiro Lestat. Soy inmortal. Mas o menos. La luz del sol, el calor prolongado de un fuego intenso..., tales cosas podrian acabar conmigo. Pero tambien podrian no hacerlo."Cuando estoy sediento de sangre, mi aspecto produce verdadero horror: la piel contraida, las venas como sogas sobre los contornos de mis huesos... Pero ya no permito que tal cosa suceda, y el unico indicio de que no soy humano son las uñas de los dedos."

La tercera entrega de las "Crónicas Vampíricas" nos aproxima de nuevo al abismal mundo de Lestat, esta vez con su amante: la Reina de los Condenados. Lestat, convertido en una famosa estrella del rock, despierta con su musica a Akasha, la Reina de los Condenados. La que una vez fuera la reina del Nilo, toma a Lestat como amante y mano derecha, y vuelca todas sus fuerzas en la destruccion de vampiros y varones con el fin de que las hembras creen un nuevo orden. Pese a las suplicas de Lestat, los deseos de la Reina son irrefrenables, y sera necesario un sacrificio para acabar con sus ansias de destruccion. "Yo soy el vampiro Lestat, ¿me recordais? El vampiro que llego a ser una superestrella del rock, el que escribio su autobiografia. El de pelo rubio y ojos grises, el de insaciables deseos de hacerse visible y famoso. Me recordais. Quise ser un simbolo del mal en un siglo iluminado donde el mal (en el sentido estricto de la palabra) que soy yo no tiene lugar. Me imagine incluso que, de esta forma, haria algun bien: jugando a ser el diablo en el escenario. La ultima vez que hablamos acababa de empezar algo con buen pie..."

It is the beginning of December and it is cold and grey outside. In the stately flickering hearths of the grand mansion of Nideck Point, oak fires are burning. The Morphenkinder are busy getting ready for the ancient pagan feast of midwinter. Everyone is invited, including some of their own who do not wish them well...Reuben Golding, the newest of the Morphenkinder, is struggling with his new existence as a Man Wolf, struggling to learn to control his desires and bloodthirsty urges. His pure, luminous girlfriend Laura seems all set to join him in this new way of life, but Reuben is not at all certain he will love her if she becomes as he is. Beyond the mansion, the forest echoes with howling winds, which carry with them tales of a strange nether world, and of spirits - centuries old - who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with their dark, magical powers. As preparations for the feast gather pace, destiny continues to hound Reuben, not least in the form of a strange, tormented ghost who appears at the window, unable to speak. But he is not alone: before the festivities are over, choices must be made - choices which will decide the fate of the Morphenkinder for ever.

Anne Rice is back, with more werewolves, gothic mansions and epic battles between good and evil. It is the beginning of December and it is cold and grey outside. In the stately flickering hearths of the grand mansion of Nideck Point, oak fires are burning. The Morphenkinder are busy getting ready for the ancient pagan feast of midwinter. Everyone is invited, including some of their own who do not wish them well...Reuben Golding, the newest of the Morphenkinder, is struggling with his new existence as a Man Wolf, struggling to learn to control his desires and bloodthirsty urges. His pure, luminous girlfriend Laura seems all set to join him in this new way of life, but Reuben is not at all certain he will love her if she becomes as he is. Beyond the mansion, the forest echoes with howling winds, which carry with them tales of a strange nether world, and of spirits - centuries old - who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with their dark, magical powers. As preparations for the feast gather pace, destiny continues to hound Reuben, not least in the form of a strange, tormented ghost who appears at the window, unable to speak. But he is not alone: before the festivities are over, choices must be made - choices which will decide the fate of the Morphenkinder for ever.

After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

Mesmerizing, darkly erotic, terrifying, The Vampire Armand is an historic instalment to Anne Rice's internationally bestselling Vampire Chronicles Magnificent and electrifying, The Vampire Armand tells the tale of the mesmerising leader of the vampire coven, the Theatre des Vampires in Paris. This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and his immortal soul...

In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination ...sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'.

From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power"In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken . . ." --Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of AtlantisAt the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent--and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean.And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.

In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken...At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean.And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spiri

Anne Rice nos escolta de regreso en el tiempo al obsesionantemente hermoso mundo de los castrati del siglo XVIII: los "sopranos" como ninos, famosos en las cortes reales y en los teatros de la opera de toda Europa. La obsesion de la autora con la mortalidad y la perdida continua en la forma de la tortuosa existencia de los castrati, adulados por sus voces gloriosas, pero a quienes tambien se les rechazaba como a un tercer sexo. La autora se centra en la tortuosa, emocionante, dramatica y apasionada vida de uno de ellos desde su mas tierna ninez, para adentrarnos en este viciado laberinto de los castrati y, con su historia personal, retratarnos una epoca, una sociedad y, como en la mayoria de sus obras, las mas humanas pasiones y miedos.

Continuación de La hora del ángel. Una nueva novela de la maestra de lo paranormal. Una obra lírica y deliciosa que sin duda apasionará a los más exigentes lectores de Anne Rice.Toby O’Dare, an