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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.

Armand, el eterno joven agraciado con la cara de un ángel de Boticelli, viaja de su Kiev natal a Venecia. En la ciudad de los canales se deja cautivar por el vampiro Marius, un misterioso pintor. Pero las fuerzas del mal entra en escena y Armand se ve condenado a un eterno vagar que lo llevara a Paris del siglo XIX, y de alli, al Nuevo Orleans actual. Un recorrido en el que desvelara los detalles de su turbulenta existencia.

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."

Anne Rice's legendary 'Vampire Chronicles' immersed us in the mythology, lives and loves of a motley crew of undead; they defined a genre. And now she has another age-old story in her sights, the terrifying werewolf legend ... The Wolf Gift marks the welcome return to form of a true master. It has all the prowess and pace of Interview with the Vampire but with the added benefit that this is Rice let loose on a fresh new subject -- and her excitement is palpable. The younger generation may be losing interest in vampire novels, but they still have a taste for the world of supernatural horror. Cue Anne Rice: there are few writers of her calibre and imagination working in this area, and even fewer that have done the research and self-examination that give her novels the richness and quality they are so justly famed for.

A stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return...From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology--a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thriller. "What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again..." --from "The Vampire Lestat" Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive "Queen of the Damned "("mesmerizing" --"San Francisco Chronicle"), a long-awaited novel that picks up where "The Vampire Lestat" ("brilliant...its undead characters are utterly alive" --"New York Times") left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles. The novel opens with the vampire world in crisis...vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in "The Queen of the Damned."..Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco. As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures-come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why... And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat...

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.

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.

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'.

Rice's lyrical, haunting new novel is a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins that once again summons up dark and dangerous worlds set in times past.

Posiblemente la más original historia de vampiros jamás escrita, Entrevista con el vampiro, primer volumen de la serie "Crónicas Vampíricas", es ya un clásico de nuestro tiempo. Esta es la historia de Louis, un joven de Nueva Orleans que, atormentado por un sentimiento de culpabilidad por la muerte de su hermano menor, se convierte en eterno habitante de la noche. Pero desde el comienzo de su nueva vida los sentimientos mas humanos salen a su paso..., en especial el amor. "-Pero ¿cuanta tienes? -pregunto el vampiro, y se dio la vuelta para que el muchacho pudiera verle el perfil-. ¿Suficiente para la historia de una vida? -Desde luego, si es una buena vida. A veces entrevisto hasta a tres o cuatro personas en una noche si tengo suerte. Pero tiene que ser una buena historia. Eso es justo, ¿no le parece? -Sumamente justo -contesto el vampiro-. Me gustaria contarte la historia de mi vida. Me gustaria mucho."

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...

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.

Una excepcional novela de horror, primera de la serie Crónicas Vampíricas y título emblemático de Anne Rice. Un joven de Nueva Orleans, con sentimiento de culpabilidad por la muerte de su hermano menor, se convierte en eterno habitante de la noche. Pero desde el comienzo de su nueva vida los sentimientos mas humanos salen a su paso, en especial el amor

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.

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