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La voz del diablo tiene como protagonistas a Rowan Mayfair, la hermosa y brillante reina del aquelarre, y a Lasher, el demonio de oscuro atractivo al que ella encuentra irresistible y de cuyo hechizo pretende escapar. Rowan y Lasher, sin embargo, s

In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their dark gift to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick OKelley Anne Rice is the author of the celebrated series of gothic novels featuring the vampire Lestat, and as Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure she is one of the best contemporary writers of erotic fiction.

"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 somehow taken possession of the prince'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 spirit.

Rowan Mayfair, la hermosa y brillante reina del aquelarre, pretende escapar de Lasher, el atractivo demonio cuyo hechizo ella encuentra irresistible. Sin embargo, ambos seres se hallan unidos por un vínculo que va más allá del deseo: han concebido una criatura que nacerá con la semilla de la sabiduría, capaz de andar y hablar desde el primer día.

Merrick es una bellísima descediente de les gens de couleur libres, una casta orientada a las prácticas del vudú y surgida en Nueva Orleans del mestizaje entre las mujeres africanas y los colonizadores franceses. La joven ignora que ha heredado los extraordinarios poderes que dieron fama a sus antecesoras, las brujas de Mayfair.

El magnetismo, el atrevimiento, el poder erótico y la amargura de una pasión que supera el tiempo distinguieron la ya proverbial Entrevista con el vampiro. En Taltos, esas características se multiplican y conforman un mundo mitológico e hipnótico, más oscuro y a la vez más seductor que el de las Crónicas Vampíricas. Taltos habla de una raza poderosa dotada de conocimientos paranormales, que se alimenta de segundos y vive a lo largo de los siglos.

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing forcea story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

In Israel, in the turbulent first century, a baby is born to a humble Jewish family - but to a great destiny. His is an uneasy childhood, as he begins to come to terms with his extraordinary powers, and the whispered mysteries surrounding his birth. The tyrannical rule of King Herod has driven the family from the Holy Land to the relative safety of cosmopolitan Alexandria. But on Herod's death, they decide to return home to Israel, to Galilee, a troubled land under Roman occupation, at a time of chaos and turmoil, insurrection and confusion…

Lestat ha gozado de una existencia cómoda, su supremacía indiscutida en el mundo de la noche colmaba sus aspiraciones. Pero una duda le llevará a replantearse la razón de su existencia. Impulsado por su afán de conocer, Lestat se embarcará en una aventura a la vez intelectual y argumental, racional y vital que por primera vez hará tambalear los cimientos de su reinado de penumbras.

En esta novela, Anne Rice narra la conversión de un joven de Nueva Orleans en eterno habitante de la noche. El protagonista, llevado por el sentimiento de culpabilidad que le ha causado la muerte de su hermano menor, anhela transformarse en un ser maldito. Sin embargo, ya desde el inicio de su vida sobrenatural, se siente invadido por los sentimientos más humanos, como el amor que lo ata a una de sus víctimas, una pasión no exenta de dependencia sexual y psicológica.