Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery

Features of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery

An annotated cosmology of Anne Rices Vampiredom from Akasha to Zenobiaall fifteen books of the Vampire Chronicles detailed by a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar the who what where why and often how of her beloved characters mortal and im brought together in a book for the first time Illustrated by Mark Edward GeyerAn Alphabettery of Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles gathers together from all fifteen of the books in the series the facts details story lines genealogies of her characters vampiric subjects geographical influences and cultural and individual histories all of which Rice painstakingly researched and invented during her 40year careerto datethrough which she has enchanted and transported us Here are concise detailed biographies of every character no matter how central or minor to the cosmologyRevealed are the intricacies and interconnectedness of characters and subjects throughout We see how Akasha Queen of Egypt and the first vampire is connected to Mekare the inheritor of the title of the Queen of the Damned etc and how these characters connect back to the darkest rebel outlaw of them all Lestat de Lioncourt And we see as well the ways in which Rices vampires have evolved from warring civilizations to isolated covens to a unified race of blood drinkers led by their herowanderer and sole monarch Prince LestatFor devoted and firsttime Anne Rice readers alike An Alphabettery of Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles will be the holy grail of lore and revelation for those who have been and continue to be mesmerized by the worlds within worlds of these beloved tales of the undead