Il libro racconta la storia del vampiro Lestat, da aristocratico raffinato nella Francia prerivoluzionaria allo stile rock di New Orleans degli anni ’80, scavando attraverso le sue molte differenti esistenze e indagando il mistero della sua persona unica e infinita

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

Here in one marvellous volume, is the cream of erotic writing from all the corners of the globe. Maxim Jakubowski has gathered together unexpurgated delights, new and unpublished gems, and classic masterpieces seldom seen before.Come play in a garden of exotic and erotic writing, with origins ranging from France and Germany to Japan and New Zealand, from Russia to the United States and Canada.

Set in the gasslit streets of 1888 London and the wild moors of the countryside beyond, The Master of Rampling Gate tells the story of Julie, a young woman who becomes obsessed with the house her father swore her and her brother to tear down upon his death. Julie can't imagine what lies in wait at Rampling Gate, a spirit that haunted her father for years and now yearns for her flesh. The Master of Rampling Gate is a sublime love story in which Julie struggles to choose between the world of reason and rationality and the dark promises of a creature she is almost helpless to resist.

Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....

The tale of THE WOLF GIFT continues . . .In Anne Rice’s surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers (“I devoured these pages . . . As solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early vampire chronicle fiction” —Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe; “A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure, shape-shifting and suspense” —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post), readers were spellbound as Rice imagined a daring new world set against the wild and beckoning California coast.Now in her new novel, as lush and romantic in detail and atmosphere as it is sleek and steely in storytelling, Anne Rice brings us once again to the rugged coastline of Northern California, to the grand mansion at Nideck Point—to further explore the unearthly education of her transformed Man Wolf.The novel opens on a cold, gray landscape. It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest.From out of the shadows of the exquisite mansion comes a ghost—tormented, imploring, unable to speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate affection . . . As Reuben finds himself caught up with the passions and yearnings of this spectral presence and the preparations for the Nideck town Christmas reach a fever pitch, astonishing secrets are revealed, secrets that tell of a strange netherworld, of spirits—centuries old—who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with their dark, magical powers . . .

En plena pubertad, a punto ya de ser un hombre, Tonio Treschi fue drogado y raptado con la complicidad de su familia y castrado cruelmente para que no perdiera la voz…Guido Maffeo, cuando apenas era un niño -demasiado joven para protestar o para huir-había sido vendido a los maestros de canto y «operado» también con fines artísticos.Los dos eran castrati: sopranos masculinos cuya voz increíble causaba la admiración de Europa. Vivían como auténticos ídolos, deseados y cortejados lo mismo por hombres que por mujeres. Pero también sufrían el rechazo de muchos, que los miraban como si fuesen monstruos de feria. Tonio Treschi no olvidaba nunca la violencia que se había ejercido sobre su cuerpo. Y su pensamiento permanente era cómo vengarse…«Fascinante y llena de colorido… Un grito al cielo es una historia de oscuros secretos familiares, de odio edípico y venganza, de complejas intrigas y violencia cotidiana, en la cual, como en la ópera, un personaje se vuelve loco, otro se oculta tras un disfraz y un tercero es víctima de un secuestro… Una mirada absorbente y deslumbrante a un mundo muy poco conocido». The Washington Post«Sometidos a la «operación» más desconsiderada de todas, ¿quién hubiera adivinado que los castrati venecianos tenían una vida sexual tan variada y versátil?». The Guardian«Un grito al cielo, como Entrevista con el vampiro, es una novela osada y erótica, atravesada por la lujuria, la tensión sexual y la música. Aquí la pasión lo es todo, el deseo es abrumador y los géneros quedan abolidos. Encontramos amantes gozosos y amantes separados, relaciones de primos con primos y de sobrinos con tías, eunucos convertidos en favoritos de cardenales, mujeres disfrazadas con ropa masculina, hombres luciendo sedas y rouge… La música lo inunda todo…» The New York Times Book Review«La exubérante narración de Anne Rice -alternativamente tórrida y apasionada- sería un espléndido libreto». The New Yorker

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.While grieving the death of her husband, Triana falls prey to the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat who uses his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness.But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than Stefan--and she sets out to resist him and to fight, not only for her sanity, but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propelled toward the novel's astonishing and unforgettable climax.

Lestat, stwórca Louisa de Pointe du Lac i Claudii — dwojga bohaterów Wywiadu z wampirem — opowiada własną historię. Przebudziwszy się po pięćdziesięciu pięciu latach zostaje gwiazdą rocka. Jego dzieje są jednak długie i mroczne sięgają osiemnastego wieku. Był wówczas autorem w Paryżu, został wampirem i podróżował po Europie w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na dręczące go pytania. Kiedy wreszcie odnalazł pierwsze wampiry, z poszukiwacza stał się ściganym.

Louis de Pointe du Lac, arystokrata z Luizjany, opowiada dziennikarzowi o swojej podróży przez życie i nieśmiertelność. Zmieniony w wampira przez ponurego Lestata, wiedzie egzystencję, której nie rozumie i do końca nie akceptuje. Jedyną jego towarzyszką jest Klaudia — ukochana kobieta zaklęta w ciele dziecka. Łączy ich chęć poznania podobnych sobie istot i zajadła nienawiść do wspólnego stwórcy —Lestata. Nasyciwszy się zemstą, Louis i Klaudia wyruszają do Europy, by znaleźć swoje miejsce i odpowiedzi na nurtujące ich pytania. Spotkany w Paryżu Armand wprowadza ich w społeczność wampirów. Wydana w 1976 roku pierwsza część „Kronik wampirów” to bestsellerowy debiut Anne Rice, który legł u podstaw całej jej kariery.