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Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Blood and GoldBlood and Gold
Vittorio the VampireVittorio the Vampire
The Vampire Armand
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First British Edition Chatto & Windus (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Blood and Gold
Blood and Gold is the latest mesmerising and exotic vampire novel from the mistress of the genre.
Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his `maker’, the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hail `bound with steel and with her blood and gold’.
When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, by the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and by the boy he calls Amadeo.
Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice’s glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of `those who must be kept’ is the most wondrous and mindblowing of them all.
Praise for Anne Rice
Memnoch Te Devil
`Rice’s most passionate and inventive work since Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened fever-pitch intensity and tells a tale as old as Scripture’s legends and as modern as today’s religious warfare.’ Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone
'Lavish descriptions, rapid narrative, gorgeous costume, and larger-than-life heroes, all against the biggest concept of them all: immortality.' Guardian
The Vampire Armand
`She always has sympathy for her devils... it is not just the epic plot but Rice’s voluptuary world that’s the main attraction... Elegant narrative... Anne Rice fans will be delighted..’ Washington Post
`Fans of Rice’s bestselling Vampire series will rush out to buy this new one... inventive fare.’ Mail on Sunday
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First British Edition Chatto & Windus (1999)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Vittorio the Vampire
Pandora launched a new series of short and bewitching vampire novels. Vittorio, the second in this series, tells the mesmerizing story of a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold, introducing a seductive new character to Anne Rice's immortal pantheon.
Sixteen-year-old Vittorio, sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan hilltop palazzo, escapes to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici seeking vengeance. He has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, only to find himself at the mercy of demonic and bloody nightmares, war and political intrigue, and torn apart by a dangerous love.
Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Renaissance Italy, with its art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice creates a passionate, tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.
'Anne rice offers more than just a story; she creates a myth' Washington Post Book World
'She writes elegant prose… [and] evokes the geography and smell of a place with great skill… Rice successfully melds fantasy, historical fact and common sense with a great deal of force and energy' Frances Fyfield, Daily Express (of Pandora)
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The Vampire Armand

In her this bewitching volume 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 - who appeared as the flamboyant leader of the Theatre des Vampires in Interview with the Vampire.
Armand begins his story against the dark, dramatic backdrop of the New Orleans convent where Lestat still lies in Endymion-like sleep. The first memories he can conjure up are brutal ones - of himself as a boy, filthy and degraded, on a slave ship bound from Constantinople for Renaissance Venice. There in a magnificent palazzo he becomes the catamite and pupil of a rich, reclusive artist - Marius, the greatest vampire of them all. Later, in a duel with an English lord, Armand receives a fatal wound, from which only Marius's dark gift can save him. Near death, he relives memories of an earlier, half-forgotten childhood in Kiev in Russia - a city under Mongol domination - and of Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sold him into slavery.
The novel rises in a glorious crescendo, moving through scenes of luxury and decadence, of ambush, fire and devil worship to nineteenth century Paris and finally to present-day New Orleans. Summoned there by the playing of impassioned music and visions of lost childhood, Armand, the eternally vulnerable and romantic hero, is forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul. Teeming with richness, sensuality and light, The Vampire Armand weaves an extraordinarily powerful spell, building to a climax and a thrilling moment of epiphany in the convent in New Orleans. .

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About The Author
Having lost her mother when she was 15 years old and later on a daughter to leukaemia, Anne Rice created tales of vampires and everlasting life to help her through the pain. She attended college in San Francisco with her husband, poet Stan Rice who she married after high school.
She has written many novels about vampires, witches and all the things your parents told you didn't exist through which she has built an adoring readership, regularly answering readers' questions on the Internet.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Blood and Gold (Chatto & Windus, 2001)
  • Vittorio the Vampire (Chatto & Windus, 1999)
  • The Vampire Armand ( 1998) (The Vampire Chronicles) Chatto & Windus Oct 98
  • Taltos (Mayfair Witches)
  • Lasher (Mayfair Witches)
  • The Witching Hour (Mayfair Witches)
  • Violin
  • Servant of the Bones
  • The Feast of All Saints
  • The Mummy
  • The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles)
  • Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles)
  • Pandora Arrow Pbk Apr 99
  • The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles)
  • Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles)
  • The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles)

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