Anne Rice

FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?

*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "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, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his 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 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 powers 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.

V Princi Lestatovi, dlouho očekávaném návratu do říše Upířích kronik, znovu ožívá neodolatelný svět duchů, nejstarších a nejmocnějších sil mezi nebem a zemí. Tam patří i nezkrotný, neviditelný Amel, jehož žízeň po lidské krvi ohrožuje nesmrtelné nemrtvé po celém světě. Anne Riceová pokračuje tam, kde před více než čtvrt stoletím v mimořádně působivé Královně prokletých a Upíru Lestatovi skončila, aby vytvořila nový výjimečný okruh duchů a sil – postavy, legendu a tradici všech Upířích kronik. Román se přesouvá ze současného New Yorku a západního pobřeží USA do starověkého Egypta, Kartága ve třetím století, Říma čtrnáctého století a renesančních Benátek. Pohybuje se mezi světy a bytostmi všech Upířích kronik – nevynechá Louise de Pointe du Lac; věčně mladého Armanda, jehož tvář patří Botticelliho andělu; hovoří o Mekare a Maharet; Pandoře a Flaviovi; Davidu Talbotovi, upírovi a hlavním zástupci utajované Talamasky; neopomene pravé tisícileté dítě Maria a přidá spoustu nových podmanivých nadpřirozených postav. Ti všichni se setkávají v tomto obsáhlém, barvitém, ambiciózním románu, aby nakonec povstali a vypátrali, kdo (nebo co) je hlas, a odhalili, po čem touží a proč… Zdánlivě nepřítomnou ústřední postavou, všemi postrádaným potulným hrdinou je nebezpečný rebel, psanec a naděje nemrtvých – okouzlující princ Lestat…

The vampire world is in crisis - their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate as never before. Roused from their earth-bound slumber, ancient ones are in thrall to the Voice: which commands that they burn fledgling vampires in cities from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to Kyoto and San Francisco. Immolations, huge massacres, have commenced all over the world. Who - or what - is the Voice? What does it desire, and why? There is only one vampire, only one blood drinker, truly known to the entire world of the Undead. Will the dazzling hero-wanderer, the dangerous rebel-outlaw Lestat heed the call to unite the Children of Darkness as they face this new twilight? Anne Rice's epic, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious new novel brings together all the worlds and beings of the legendary Vampire Chronicles, from present-day New York and Ancient Egypt to fourth-century Carthage and Renaissance Venice; from Louis de Pointe du Lac; Armand the eternally young; Mekare and Maharet; to Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the Secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true child of the Millennia. It also introduces many other seductive supernatural creatures, and heralds significant new blood.

After a 15 year wait LESTAT is back in Anne Rice's long awaited new Vampire Chronicles novel. The vampire world is in crisis - their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate as never before. Roused from their earth-bound slumber, ancient ones are in thrall to the Voice: which commands that they burn fledgling vampires in cities from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to Kyoto and San Francisco. Immolations, huge massacres, have commenced all over the world. Who - or what - is the Voice? What does it desire, and why? There is only one vampire, only one blood drinker, truly known to the entire world of the Undead. Will the dazzling hero-wanderer, the dangerous rebel-outlaw Lestat heed the call to unite the Children of Darkness as they face this new twilight? Anne Rice's epic, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious new novel brings together all the worlds and beings of the legendary Vampire Chronicles, from present-day New York and Ancient Egypt to fourth-century Carthage and Renaissance Venice; from Louis de Pointe du Lac; Armand the eternally young; Mekare and Maharet; to Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the Secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true child of the Millennia. It also introduces many other seductive supernatural creatures, and heralds significant new blood.

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, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from 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 time for the secret of his own dark immortality.

Sníval sa mi sen plný anjelov. Videl som ich aj počul v obrovskej nekonečnej galaktickej noci. Videl som svetlá, boli to anjeli, poletovali sem aj tam a ich dráhy zanechávali nádherné trblietavé stopy... V nádhernej, dokonalej ríši svetla a zvukov som vnímal lásku. Vedel som, že ma dôverne poznajú. Cítil som, že som milovanou súčasťou všetkého, čo som videl a počul. No uvedomil som si, že si z toho nič, celkom nič nezaslúžim. Premkol ma hlboký smútok, zmiešal sa so spievajúcimi hlasmi, lebo spievali o mne... Takto sa začína ďalší román Anne Riceovej, triler o anjeloch a vrahoch, v ktorom sa opäť ocitneme v temných, nebezpečných hlbinách histórie. Tentoraz nás autorka zavedie do Ríma 15. storočia, do mesta chrámov, veží, strešných záhrad a krížov týčiacich sa k oblohe. Rím z čias Michelangela a Raffaela, Svätej inkvizície a pápeža Leva X., druhorodeného syna z rodu Mediciovcov, prihovárajúceho sa k národu z pápežského stolca... Do tohto obdobia privedie anjel Malkiáš Tobyho O´Dara, bývalého nájomného vraha, ktorý v úsilí o návrat k Bohu pomáha riešiť zločiny minulosti, aby neodsúdili nevinných. V napínavom príbehu travičstva v spojení s tajomným nepokojným duchom dybbukom sa Toby ocitá v nebezpečných situáciách, no v myšlienkach vracia do svojej minulosti a v hlbokých zamysleniach dospieva k lepšiemu pochopeniu temných a dobrých síl, zloby a nehy. V nádeji na odpustenie verí, že jedného dňa sa spojí so svojou láskou a synom a bude spolu s nimi žiť každodenný život. Z anglického originálu Of Love and Evil (Random House of Canada, Toronto 2010) preložila Melita Albrechtová. Verše preložila Jana Kantorová-Báliková.

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...

Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with a lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and dangerous worlds in our time and in centuries past. Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk. Toby is plunged into this rich age as a lutist sent to charm and calm this troublesome spirit. In the fullness of the high Italian Renaissance, Toby soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and counterplots, surrounded by a still darker and more da ngerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. And as he once again embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, he is reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and tender, with the promise of salvat ion and with a deeper and richer vision of love.

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'.

A VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD...Sixteen years old, Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. Escaping to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici, he seeks vengeance and retribution. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, he finds himself at the mercy of demonic, bloody nightmares, war and political intrique. And, beyond even these perils, Vittorio faces being torn apart by a dangerous love. Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Rennaisance Italy, with it's art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice introduces a seductive new character and creates a passionate traggic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

In a cafe in modern-day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the fearless and beautiful Pandora begins to tell her tale of treachery, vengeance and love stretching across two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Caesar Augustus, Pandora was first introduced to the blood-tainted cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn even further into the dark, ancient rites. Now looking back across the centuries, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans, to find the love of her early life, Marius, and to see once again the Vampire Lestat...

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection. Now in his thirtieth year, Jesus and his tight-knit family endure a long, dusty winter of disruption and chaos. Whispers of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of his family and the weight of his great destiny, those around him wait for some sign of the path he will take. But this quiet man of Nazareth is instead called upon to found a ministry which will utterly transform an unsuspecting world.