本书是一部寓意丰富的幻想小说，渗透着对人类心灵和思想的深刻透视。作者借非现实世界的描述表现现实世界的真实，从吸血鬼的内心去开掘人性深处的奥秘。小说通过主人公路易的吸血鬼人生来揭示现实世界中人的孤独和生的矛盾。路易是在无法忍受人生痛苦、寻求一死时被变为吸血鬼的，但吸血鬼的杀人、吸血之鬼性并没有完全取代他的人性，他不像其他吸血鬼那样杀人成性……

《吸血鬼莱斯特》是美国著名“吸血鬼”小说家安妮·赖斯继《夜访吸血鬼》之后的第二部作品。莱斯特应该就是那里面的莱斯塔特。
吸血鬼莱斯特身为法国大革命前的贵族，在遭到数度重创，而且似乎即将被时代潮流所淘汰的他沉睡多年后，被现代的摇滚乐所唤醒，摇身一变成为最前卫的摇滚巨星。面对这个已经全然不同的新世界，吸血鬼莱斯特回忆了他的早年教育和历险。他讲述了他的吸血鬼生涯，并以此来澄清自己的信仰与理念，以及路易斯对他的误会。他的自述逐步展现了自己的过去与血族的传承，让读者看到他在黑暗世界中的挣扎——他穿越时空四处寻觅同类，努力探询自身长年不死的神奇奥秘；一个充满勇气、向往舞台和掌声的贵族如何被剥夺了他来本会有的光明和美好；他将自己的母亲化为吸血鬼；他在寻找马格纳斯的过程中发现历史秘密；他和尼古拉斯、阿曼德的爱恨情仇……神圣与堕落、真善美的交错对立等等，使这个故事跌宕起伏引人入胜。
我是吸血鬼莱斯特。从某种意义上说，我永生不死。太阳的光芒，持续而炽热的火焰，都可能将我毁灭，或许，也不会。
我有六英尺高，这种身高在18世纪80年代，当我还是一个年轻凡人的时候，已经令人惊异，即使到了今天也相当不错。我有一头浓密而拳曲的金黄色头发，长不过肩，在荧光灯下显得有些苍白。我的眼睛是蓝色的，但它们可以轻易地从周遭吸取蓝色和紫色。我的鼻子又短又窄。我的嘴巴长得很好，只不过对我的脸来说，略微偏大。它时而让你感觉我非常吝啬，时而又慷慨万分。不过，它永远都是那么诱人。我的情绪和心态永远都写在脸上——我有一张永恒不变的生动的脸。
莱斯特，吸血鬼故事放浪不羁的主角和叙述者。
他长发炫目，微笑璀璨。在失去信仰的年代，他失去了信念……困囿于残存的人性，沉湎于嗜血的渴望，期盼着寥落的温情，陶醉在权力的梦魇。扯下吸血鬼世界阴厉沉寂的帷幕，他摇身一变成为摇滚巨星，揭开了黑暗世界的秘密。
恐怖，纵情……一场魔幻盛宴……安妮·赖斯在文学殿堂里永生……她的文字令人眩晕，好似在史诗的经纬间穿梭，又仿佛体内的血液正在被渐渐抽干。
——《旧金山纪事报》
现在，吸血鬼莱斯特苏醒了。他那磅礴的力量让我们头晕目眩，魂萦梦牵……莱特斯永生不朽！
——《休斯顿邮报》
《夜访吸血鬼》的绝妙延续……莱斯特，安妮·赖斯思想深处最丰富源泉的产物。
——《堪萨斯城星报》

《吸血鬼女王》以18世纪末的新奥尔良的时空背景为叙事原点，上下挪移，横越法国大革命时期的混乱秩序、中世纪的阴沉动荡、罗马时代的狂欢飨宴，直逼古埃及王朝的残酷壮丽全景，纺织出一幅纵横历史，上至远古，下至20世纪末的群魔绣帷，承载了超自然国度的奢靡、绝望与狂欢。

颇具人性的吸血鬼莱斯特有幸遇上了好人戴维和格伦琴,但不幸的是，他也遭遇了坏人詹姆斯。詹姆斯设下圈套盗走了莱斯特的万能鬼体并到处兴风作浪。在所有同类不愿对莱斯特施以援手的情况下,戴维帮助他收复“复地”并消灭了坏人詹姆斯。
本书作者安妮·赖斯在一次访谈中说,“本书最终成了一中无比生动的小说,它给我带来了极大的欢乐……我不得不坦白,对本书的过分热爱导致我在写作时不顾一切,致使本书的故事情节过于曲折。”

新奥尔良，欢迎光临布莱克伍德庄园。
象牙色的巨大廊柱，空旷富丽的厅堂，绚烂飘香的花园，漆黑鬼魅的沼泽。这是奎因·布莱克伍德和精灵鬼魂的世界。
从童年到成人，从人类到不死幽灵，从远古的庞贝到现代的那不勒斯，请跟随奎因，跨越时空，跨越地域，揭开布莱克伍德庄园的惊天秘密。
赖斯以18世纪末的新奥尔良的时空背景为叙述原点，上下挪移，横越法国大革命时期的混乱失序、中世纪的阴沉动荡、罗马时代的狂欢飨宴，直逼古埃及王朝的残酷壮丽全景，编织出一幅纵横历史，上至远古，下至20世纪末的群魔绣帷，承载了超自然国度的奢靡，绝望与狂梦。

《少年吸血鬼阿曼德》（1988）為安．萊絲「吸血鬼紀事」的第六部。（前五部分別為《夜訪吸血鬼》、《吸血鬼黎斯特》、《天譴者的女王》、《肉體竊賊》、《惡魔蔓諾克》。）
擁有少男外貌與永恆青春的阿曼德，五百年的年華流轉。情節綜合古今，場景橫跨歐亞美各地。（君士坦丁堡、威尼斯、基輔羅斯、巴黎、紐約、紐奧爾良。）
在吸血鬼系列之前出版的小說中，阿曼德只是一個小角色。他外型如天使般俊秀，但性格冷酷，心思細膩而愛恨分明。在本書中，阿曼德成為主角，向吸血鬼大衛‧泰柏特敘述自己五百年來的生活種種。阿曼德成為吸血鬼時，約在十六世紀初，當時年約17歲，身高五呎六吋。他在基輔時本名安特烈，之後被馬瑞斯稱為阿曼狄歐（為上帝所愛的人），接著再被亞麗珊卓取名為阿曼德。
他原是出生於基輔羅斯貧苦鄉村的男孩安特烈，被父親強拉外出打獵卻被土耳其人俘虜、賣給妓院。儘管被加以威逼利誘，但他始終拒絕出賣自己的肉體，在幾乎瀕死的情況下，吸血鬼馬瑞斯把他從地獄中解救出來，卻也使這位俊秀美少年成為同類，從此過著五百年游移於黑暗之中的異界生活。
馬瑞斯稱阿曼德為阿曼狄歐，他與馬瑞斯的學徒男孩們共同學習文藝武術，浸淫於文藝復興的藝術中。他曾於瀕死之際，遊歷天界，體驗到愛即一切；而在基輔的歲月中，他是個天才畫師，聖像對他有深遠意義。阿曼德帶有純真的聖徒之心，以及深沈旺盛的虔誠信仰……
1499年馬瑞斯遭吸血族攻擊，為火焰吞噬。侍奉撒旦的吸血鬼領袖桑提諾救了阿曼德。阿曼德經過折磨後，加入桑提諾及亞麗珊卓，經過傳承，最後他前往巴黎領導當地吸血族，此時名字由阿曼狄歐改為阿曼德。18世紀時黎斯特出場，吸血鬼劇場誕生。1870年路易斯從美洲前來巴黎。阿曼德愛上路易斯。之後阿曼德愛上了少年記者丹尼爾。阿曼德曾經設立無邪者的巴黎巢穴以及夜島，歷經天譴者的女王大屠殺……
黎斯特愛戀上人類朵拉，歷經被吸出地球大氣層；而阿曼德則是追尋聖容而奔日，被焚燒但未亡。接著出現在在紐約，解救了人類西貝耶和小班杰……黎斯特現今陷入沉睡中，他親睹過天堂與地獄，實情為何？聖帕，上帝的容顏如何影響阿曼德？在歷經種種試驗與磨難，阿曼德重拾信仰，也從仰望馬瑞斯的學生蛻變為引導他人的導師。

还是那个莱斯特吗？鬈发金黄如火，瞳仁幽深似海，笑容魅惑如故。如果看不到日出，再绚烂的色彩也无法将他的欲望描绘，他渴望崇高、纯洁和真爱。跨越千年，洞穿数不尽的魑魅魍魉，解救痛苦不堪的灵魂，见证基督的存在……带着圣徒的心，他终将何去何从？
吸血鬼是西方世界里最诱人、最神秘、最浪漫的传说人物，因为它身上具有一切不可思议的魅力：高贵、美丽、永生不死。西方历代文人写下了大量的诗歌剧本来表达对吸血鬼即向往又恐惧的心情，如拜伦、科尔律支、济慈，就连大仲马、狄更斯这样的大家也写过相关的作品。其中，最为经典的当数斯托克的《德拉库拉》和安妮·赖斯的吸血鬼系列。《血颂》是安妮·赖斯的吸血鬼系列最新的一本：莱斯特仍然穿着他华美的衬衫，精致的外套，袖口还有手工缝制的蕾丝，他伸出手，手中有黑色的火焰，那是黑色魔法。他仍然给予别人他的血，造出他喜欢的新生儿……

"A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."--USA Today "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."--The Washington Post Book World "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."--Playboy "[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."--The Seattle Times

In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.

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.

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.”
– People

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.
Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.
From the Hardcover edition.

At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow 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 spirit.

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" -SF 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…