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Triumfalny powrót Anne Rice do „Kronik wampirów”, uznany przez czytelników Goodreads najlepszym horrorem 2014 roku! Nieoczekiwany, porywający powrót Lestata… Wampiry mnożą się na potęgę. W wielu miejscach na świecie dochodzi do pożarów i masakr podobnych do tej z Królowej Potępionych… Stare wampiry, zbudzone ze snu, stają się posłuszne tajemniczemu Głosowi, który nakazuje im wyeliminować wszystkich bezmyślnych wampirzych pobratymców – od Paryża i Bombaju, przez Hongkong i Kioto aż po San Francisco. W Nowym Jorku zbierają się najważniejsze postaci z „Kronik wampirów”. Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand, Marius de Romanus czy David Talbot, wampir z sekretnej organizacji Talamaska. Nie może wśród nich zabraknąć pozornie nieobecnego bohatera, tułacza, oszałamiającego buntownika i wielkiej nadziei nieumarłych – wspaniałego księcia Lestata…

Zranione serce może krwawić przez stulecia. Tak dzieje się z Mariusem, wampirem, którego historię Anne Rice wiele razy wspominała w „Kronikach wampirów“. Tym razem to on jest głownym bohaterem historii, opowiadającym szczegółowo swoje losy. Wyrwany z ukochanego Rzymu i zmuszony strzec wampirzych władców, Marius nigdy nie wybaczył sprawcom swej „ludzkiej” śmierci. Tysiące lat później wciąż rozpacza nad swą stratą. Nieśmiertelność jest dla niego błogosławieństwem, ale i przekleństwem. Jest on świadkiem najwspanialszych dla ludzkości wydarzeń, ale nie może się w nie angażować. Ciągle żyje w obawie, że świat pozna ciążące nad nim przekleństwo. Dwa tysiące lat historii Mariusa, mentora wampira Lestata, w kolejnej fascynującej opowieści Anne Rice z bestsellerowego cyklu „Kronik wampirów“.

Louis de Pointe du Lac, arystokrata z Luizjany, opowiada dziennikarzowi o swojej podr�ży przez życie i nieśmiertelność. Zmieniony w wampira przez ponurego Lestata wiedzie egzystencję, kt�rej nie rozumie i do końca nie akceptuje. Jedyną jego towarzyszką jest Claudia - ukochana kobieta zaklęta w ciele dziecka. Łączy ich chęć poznania podobnych sobie istot i zajadła nienawiść do własnego stw�rcy - Lestata. Nasyciwszy się zemstą, Louis i Claudia wyruszają na wyprawę do Europy, by znaleźć swoje miejsce i odpowiedzi na nurtujące ich pytania. Spotkany w Paryżu Armand wprowadza ich w społeczność wampir�w. Wydana w 1976 roku pierwsza część 'Kronik wampir�w' to bestsellerowy debiut Anne Rice, kt�ry legł u podstaw jej błyskotliwej kariery.

Otoczoną posępnymi bagnami posiadłość Blackwood ożywiają przybycia i odjazdy opętanych i skazujących na opętanie. Wśród nich jest wampir Lestat, pan czasu, na tyle próżny, by uwierzyć, że może zostać świętym, na tyle słaby, by się zakochać bez nadziei na ziszczenie miłości. Wraz z dwojgiem towarzyszy, Quinnem i Moną, rozwiązuje przerażające sekrety rodziny Mayfair i ratuje przed zagładą tajemniczą rasę nieśmiertelnych, ukrywających się na samotnej wyspie.

Kroniki Daru Wilka: „Wilcze przesilenie” Pierwsza powieść Anne Rice z nowego cyklu o zagadkowym świecie wilkołaków zaskoczyła czytelników i zauroczyła barwną, odważną wizją tego, co może się kryć się w tajemniczych, dzikich rejonach kalifornijskiego wybrzeża. Historii „Daru wilka” ciąg... číst celé

Klify nad Pacyfikiem, piękna rezydencja z sekwojową puszczą w tle. Młody reporter otrzymuje zlecenie – ma napisać artykuł o niesamowitej posiadłości. Przypadkowe spotkanie dwojga ludzi i idylliczną noc przerywa brutalna napaść. Mężczyzna zostaje pogryziony przez bestię, której w nieprzeniknionej... číst celé

Pierwsza książka nowej serii autorki „Wywiadu z wampirem”! Bestseller „New York Timesa”! Pokuta” to hipnotyzująca powieść o aniele i płatnym mordercy. Metafizyczny thriller, który przeniesie Cię do trzynastowiecznej Anglii. Fascynująca i prowokująca książka o winie i przebaczeniu, miłości i nienawiści, samotności i pięknie.

Najbardziej zaskakujące dzieło Anne Rice. Mistrzyni powieści grozy,autorka słynnego cyklu Kroniki wampir�w, w wyniku swojego nawr�cenia stworzyła książkę o dziejach dorastającego Jezusa!Przemiana życiowa autorki wpłynęła na fabułę i kontekst jej powieści, a literackie możliwości i elektryzujący styl pisania pozostały na wysokim poziomie.Jakim dzieckiem był Jezus? Czy chorował, bawił się i śmiał jak każdy inny chłopiec? Kiedy i jak odkrył, że jest Synem Boga? Jak dojrzewali do tej myśli J�zef i Maryja? Jak żyła i jak radziła sobie z tą tajemnicą najbardziej wyjątkowa rodzina w dziejach świata? Czy mieli wątpliwości? Kto z najbliższych wiedział, kto się domyślał, a kto nie wierzył?

The "New York Times" bestselling first and second volumes in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles now join Ballantine's monthly "Special Low Price" mass market reissue program.

The mother of all vampires, Akasha, awakens after a 6,000 year slumber when she hears Lestat the vampire's music about her. She elevates herself to the level of the gods and vows to destroy Lestat.

The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Witness the confessions of a vampire. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. QUEEN OF THE DAMNED Akasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. --back cover

#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon 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.

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. 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.

Anne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius.

Ramses the Great lives but having drunk the elixir of life he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed to wander the Earth seeking to quell hungers for food, for wine and for women. When he awakens in the drawing room of a house in Edwardian London he becomes infatuated with a beautiful shipping heiress.

Set in New Orleans before the Civil War, this is the story of the "Free People of Colour", descended from slaves and their French and Spanish owners. Among them is Marcel, an artist in the making, his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.

Pandora tells of her life as a woman of privilege in the Rome of Augustus Caesar

In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance 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 upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris 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.

Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what hes about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic landscape that Rice has made his own.

From Anne Rice, author of Beauty's Kingdom, the third book in the erotic Sleeping Beauty seriesBefore E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You,, there was Anne Rice’s provocative take on the timeless fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty. “ In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.

Internationally bestselling author, Anne Rice, has written twenty-eight novels - magnificent tales of other worldly beings that explore the realms of good and evil, love and alienation: each a reflection of her own moral journey.

When Last The Vampire Lestat Was Seen, He Was Rising From The Dead In Present-Day New Orleans To Walk Again Among Anne Rice'S Unforgettable Undead. Now Lestat Lives Again, But In A Twilight World Of Music And Memory. His Charismatic Friend Louis De Pointe Du Lac Is Tortured By The Memory Of The Child Vampire, Claudia, Whom He Loved And Lost. He Calls On Merrick, Young And Gorgeous Mixed-Race By-Blow Of The Rich New Orleans Mayfair Clan. To Save Louis' Sanity, Merrick Must Use Her Black Witchcraft To Call Up The Ghost Of Claudia - However Dangerous This May Be. There Are Other Mayfair Spirits Who Will Not Lie Still, And Her Search Takes Her Close To The Edge, Through Blood And Terror, Ritual And Violence. Sweeping From New Orleans To The Brazilian Jungle And The Island Of Haiti, This Is Vampire Literature At Its Most Tantalising, Sexy And Irresistible.

Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

“Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the [sensual].”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—Cosmopolitan

The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs. Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston and she becomes pregnant with another creature like him, a Taltos. Lasher seeks to reproduce his race in other women, but they cannot withstand it. Rowan escapes and becomes comatose as her fully-grown Taltos daughter is born. The Mayfairs declare all-out war on Lasher and try to nurse Rowan back to heatlth. Michael remains entwined in the Mayfair family and learns how he comes by his strange powers. Michael's ghostly visiting from a long-dead Mayfair reveals the importance of destroying Lasher. In the investigation, Lasher's origins are revealed, the new Taltos Emaleth returns, and the climax of death and life engulfs the family. --annerice.com

"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE". --San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera". --The Washington Post Book World "AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION". --Los Angeles Times Book Review "SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller". --Cosmopolitan "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN". --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice". --The Wall Street Journal

Exploring the childhood of Christ, this novel presents a deeply thoughtful narrative rooted in the gospels and esteemed New Testament scholarship. Anne Rice delves into the formative years of Jesus, offering insights into his early life and the experiences that shaped his identity. This work stands out as her most profound and powerful contribution, blending rich storytelling with theological exploration.

In Anne Rice's captivating novel, "The Vampire Lestat," the titular character faces redemption amidst a snowy New York. Torn between his vampire nature and love for Dora, he confronts Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Lestat is taken on a journey through Creation and Purgatory, forced to choose between God and the Devil.

The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, from the author of Beauty's Kingdom. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. This series [predates the eroticism of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You.

A famous children's book illustrator is seduced by a teenage runaway with a mysterious past.

Welcome to the club: Eden - there to satisfy your deepest desires, if you can afford to indulge them. Mysterious, elegant, sparkling in the Caribbean sun, pulsating in the velvet nights, the champagne never stops flowing and the rich and beautiful play games of dominance and submission.

“I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance . . . I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light . . . And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me . . . ” Thus begins a lyrical, haunting novel, a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins set in fifteenth-century Rome, a city of domes, rooftop gardens, and towering crosses beneath shifting clouds. Amidst the backdrop of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Holy Inquisition, Toby O’Dare, a former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to solve a poisoning crime and uncover the truth behind a haunting by a restless spirit—a diabolical dybbuk. As O’Dare navigates dark plots and threats, the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. His journey of atonement reconnects him with his own past, revealing matters both light and dark, fierce and tender, and offering a deeper vision of love and the promise of salvation.

In "Beauty’s Kingdom," Anne Rice, as A. N. Roquelaure, continues the Sleeping Beauty series. After Queen Eleanor's death, Beauty and Laurent return to claim the throne, advocating for voluntary erotic servitude. The novel explores themes of desire and ecstasy, appealing to both longtime fans and new readers of erotica. Intended for mature audiences.

This story begins with a murder on modern-day Fifth Avenue in New York and reaches back across the centuries to an equally ruthless Old Testament world. Through the hero, Azriel, it explores the pogroms, the diaspora, arcane mysteries of the Kabbalah, the Fall, and the nature of good and evil.

Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures—a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula—setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. Against a backdrop of the wonders—both sacred and profane—and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm. Violin flows abundant with the history, the drama, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best. Anne Rice is the author of eighteen books. She lives in New Orleans.

ELIGIBLE! They have been summoned to London to enjoy the "delights" of the Season, yet neither Theodora Wooton-Devereux nor Lord Nicholas Faringdon is an enthusiastic participant in the game of love.

From hatching and growing feathers to finally taking flight independently, Baby Bird grows and finds the courage to leave Mommy Birds nest. Mommy Bird urges caution, but Baby Bird is all too excited and quickly flies away high into the sky and begins to explore, soaring above the trees and rocketing over neighboring towns. He finds himself excited by all the noises and new things he sees as he wanders and meanders about using his new sense of freedom. His only destination in mind is one where he can discover more to fill the curiosity in his head that has been bubbling up since he was born in his nest, waiting for the day he could

Alive with jazz and tropical flowers, its streets an intoxicating 24-hour party, New Orleans exerts a hypnotic effect on virtually every visitor and resident, but perhaps none have been more susceptible to its exotic charm than the writers who have lived there. From Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Anne Rice; from Kate Chopin to Zora Neale Hurston to Ellen Gilchrist; from Tennessee Williams to Truman Capote to Walker Percy, the authors in this remarkable collection celebrate the city that stirs their imaginations as no other can. Third in our best-selling series of anthologies centered around America's great cities, New Orleans Stories includes not only "literature," but also interviews, ghost stories, and voodoo charms. Perfect for first-time visitors as well as longtime residents, it re-creates the heady, mesmerizing atmosphere of New Orleans itself.

Armed with a crucifix, a wooden stake, a bottle of holy water, and a string of garlic, the vampire hunter ventures into the world of the undead to end the existence of those who have already died. This collection of 14 stories shifts the traditional focus of the genre from creatures of the night to the figures who stalk them. Introduced by the archetypal vampire hunter, Dracula's Professor Van Helsing, here are tales from such acclaimed authors as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Rice, Robert Bloch, and Peter Tremayne - whose eerie tale transplants the character of Van Helsing to modern-day Ireland.

Supporting Strategy develops the concept of the strategic development process. The book begins by describing a balanced process for strategy development, spanning direction setting, strategy creation, rehearsal, evaluation and choice, leading to a continuous process of adopting strategic initiatives. It then goes on to present a practical collection of frameworks, methods and models which both individually and in combination can be used to support strategy. The collection drama theory, visioning methods, problem structuring methods, resource based view of strategy, SWOT / TOWS analysis, system dynamics, agent based modelling, scenario planning, decision and risk analysis, financial evaluation, real options, robustness analysis and performance measurement. This is a contributed work with original content written fro the book from leading academics in the field, including Maureen Meadows, Robert Berry, Jim Bryant, Adrian Caldart, Alberto Franco, Giles Hindle, Nigel Howard, Martin Kunc, Abhijit Mandal, Gilberto Montibeller, John Morecroft, Martin Murtland, Fernando Oliveira, and Efstathios Tapinos.

Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.

Con La hora de las brujas, Anne Rice abre la seductora trilogía centrada en la familia Mayfair, en la que se entremezcla la brujería con una historia familiar que abarca cuatro siglos y salta de las desoladas tierras altas de Escocia a la bulliciosa Nueva Orleans. Fama, fortuna, tragedia y relaciones turbulentas están pautadas por un poderoso y letal espíritu.Michael Curry es un exitoso contratista profesional, pero sufre extraños sueños relacionados con su hogar ancestral, en Nueva Orleans. Tras una experiencia cercana a la muerte, desarrolla extraños poderes. La persona que le rescata es la doctora Rowan Mayfair, brillante neurocirujana y descendiente de una legendaria familia de dicha ciudad. Ambos se verán obligados a enfrentarse a su sorprendente herencia.

El segundo volumen de la novela narra la historia de una familia de mujeres brujas desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad. Doce generaciones de mujeres hermosas, excepcionales, pero también peligrosas son observadas por la misteriosa organización Tamalasca, que se ocupa de fenómenos sobrenaturales. Los impactantes destinos de estas "brujas" nos llevan a las tierras altas de Escocia, a la Francia medieval, a Haití y, finalmente, a la Nueva Orleans contemporánea. En todos estos lugares, la familia Mayfair tiene una mujer en cada generación que hereda un poder extraordinario y, con él, el peligroso espíritu de Lasher, que ayuda y perjudica, dependiendo de las circunstancias y del punto de vista.

Continua a saga dos Mayfair, com suas tragédias e mistérios. Rowan toma posse da casa, da esmeralda e do legado. Mas, de quebra, leva também Lasher e sua maldição. Cabe agora a Rowan decidir-se entre o amor de Michael Curry e a sedução desse ser poderoso que quer ficar nesse mundo para sempre.

Stephen King, Anne Rice, Richard Laymon, Ray Bradbury, Riger Zelazny e molti altri maestri della narrativa dell'orrore si cimentano in queste pagine con una delle figure più inquietanti del nostro immaginario orrorifico: il Vampiro. Dopo la pubblicazione del Dracula di Bram Stoker il mito del Principe delle Tenebre ha conquistato definitivamente l'attenzione del grande pubblico. E' vero comunque che storie di vampiri erano già state scritte prima del capolavoro di Stoker. Sono proprio questi primi esempi ad aprire l'antologia, che prende poi in esame i celebri film nati sulla scia dei racconti, e si chiude con una selezione di alcune tra le tante storie brevi scritte negli ultimi anni che hanno aperto al genere nuove possibilità.

New York è stretta dalla morsa dell'inverno e sommersa dalla neve. Lestat è sulle tracce di Dora, la bella e carismatica figlia di un boss della droga che lui ha ucciso; una donna che come nessun altro mortale suscita in lui sentimenti di tenerezza. Combattuto tra l'istinto vampiresco e uno slancio d'amore per la ragazza, Lestat si confronta con gli avversari più pericolosi che abbia mai conosciuto. Viene rapito dal misterioso Memnoch, che sostiene di essere il Diavolo, e che lo porta fuori dal mondo. E' invitato ad assistere allo spettacolo della Creazione e viene poi trasportato, come gli antichi profeti, nel regno dei Cieli e accompagnato nel Purgatorio. Sarà condotto nella Terra della Morte e dovrà confrontarsi con Dio e con il Diavolo.

Rowan è l'ultima delle streghe, la più potente, colei che è riuscita a evocare il più terribile dei demoni, Lasher, e a rivestire il suo spirito evanescente di carne e ossa. Lasher è venuto al mondo la notte di Natale: è nato già adulto e ora vuole continuare a essere l'amante della bella Rowan, vuole fecondarla, perché dal suo ventre risorga la nuova stirpe dei Taltos, esseri di puro Male che, come lui, hanno un corredo cromosomico diverso da quello degli uomini. E sulle tracce dei Taltos, Lasher parte alla ricerca delle sue origini, del suo passato, alla scoperta delle ragioni della sua esistenza che affondano in tempi perduti e bui. --back cover

New York è stretta nella morsa di un inverno rigidissimo, ma i vampiri non patiscono il freddo e Lestat de Lioncourt, incontrastato principe delle tenebre, attende nella notte, pregustando il sangue della sua prossima vittima. Una facile preda, come molte altre, la cui inevitabile fine, però, porterà Lestat molto lontano, sino ad affrontare le sue paure più oscure e inconfessabili. Una sfida che culminerà nello scontro con una creatura sovrannaturale che dice di chiamarsi Memnoch e di essere nientemeno che il Diavolo: Memnoch ha atteso secoli qualcuno come Lestat, e ora lo vuole al suo fianco nella sua lotta contro Dio...