Anything Rare, in association with Amazon.com books, offers a variety of Anne Rice books, ranging from the Vampire Chronicles, Mayfair Witches, erotica under pen names and various independent titles like The Mummy. Click on the price links to order.
Featured Selections:
Here's a great chance to get this limited edition SIGNED 20th Anniversary slipcased INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Although Amazon's link does not mention this is signed, I've checked the ISBN and e-mailed book dealers to confirm that this is indeed the autographed slipcased version. ON SALE $24.50
THE VAMPIRE ARMAND--Reserve your copy of the newest book in the famous Vampire Chronicles series, due for release this fall. Not Priced Yet
BIRTH OF THE VAMPIRE, a VHS tape with accompanying book about the story behind Rice's most popular stories. $16.99 for tape and book.
The Vampire Chronicles
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE--Reprint Edition. This is the recently published hardback replica of the original gold foil dust jacket. This is the book that started it all. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he
speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his
first two hundred years as one of the living dead. $19.25
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT--The second book in the Vampire Chronicles series, hardcover. Romp through the Savage Garden with Lestat. What a vivid, captivating wonderful book! $17.50
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED--The third book in the series, hardcover. The Boston Globe called it a tour de force. "Her refugees from sunlight are symbols of the walking alienated, those of us who,
by choice or not, dwell on the fringe."
$17.50
TALE OF THE BODY THIEF--Book number four, hardcover. The Vampire Chronicles continue. For centuries, Lestat - vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of
mortals - has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now
Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel
safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness,
Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years
of his long existence. $16.80
MEMNOCH THE DEVIL--Book Five, hardcover, first reprint edition. This installment of the Vampire Chronicles finds Lestat - outsider, canny monster,
hero-wanderer - is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought into direct with both
God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. $17.50
PANDORA--This is the first trade edition, hardback of the most recent book in the Vampire Chronicles. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's
daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the
antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my
reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and
Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law."
Pandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice's
famed vampire Lestat). $13.97
THE COMPLETE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES BOXED SET--This paperback set includes the first four books, Interview through Body Thief. $22.37
THE VAMPIRE COMPANION, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ANNE RICE'S VAMPIRE CHRONICLES--by Katherine Ramsland .This is the oversized quality paperback version, revised and updated, ultimate reference guide to the world, history and
adventures of the characters from the Vampire Chronicles. Everything the reader might want to
explore further is annotated and analyzed in this entertaining work: the unforgettable characters of
Louis, Lestat, Claudia, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch; the important points of interest on Lestat's
fascinating tour through Heaven and Hell; ancient lore; Rice's unique contributions to the mythos of
vampires; the literary inspirations that echo through the novels; Rice's own reflections and
revelations about her work and the movie Interview with a Vampire; and more. $14.36
The Mayfair Witches
THE WITCHING HOUR--The first book in the Mayfair Witches sage, hardback. In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a
great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family
that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. $19.25
LASHER--Book Two in the series, hardback. At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, who must flee
from the darkly brutal, yet irresistable demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this
wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of
spiritual aspiration and passion. $19.25
TALTOS--Book Three, hardback. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel
takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly
mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted,
hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice. $17.50
THE WITCHES' COMPANION, THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO ANNE RICE'S LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES--by Katherine Ramsland, oversized quality paperback. In the tradition of her bestselling vampire novels, Anne Rice created the sensuous saga of the
Mayfair witches. Full of supernatural suspense and mesmerizing eroticism, The Witching Hour and
Lasher have bewitched hundreds of thousands. As Taltos debuts, the time is ideal for this definitive
guide to the history and mysteries of Rice's captivating coven of witches. $14.36
Independent Titles
VIOLIN-- Hardcover. New York Times book reviewer Bill Hayes described it as follows:
"Unlike many of Rice's other novels, written in series, Violin stand alone--for now. It is a Gothic
romance in which a Stradivarius is the object of love and intrigue, the instrument for a ghost's
lingering visibility. Mourning her husband's death from AIDS, Rice's narrator, Triana Becker, is
driven to madness by the incessant playing of a phantom violinist, Stefan, formerly the 19th-century
Russian Prince Stefanovsky. Like a vampire drawn to blood, Stefan feeds on Triana's grief in order
to perform his haunting music." $18.17
THE MUMMY OR RAMSES THE DAMNED--Oversized quality paperback. InThe Mummy Anne Rice weaves the same magic for the world and history of mummies that she
previously did for the worlds and mythologies of vampires and witches. Ramses the Great lives, but
having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth,
desperate to quell certain mummy hungers that can never be satisfied. $11.20
CRY TO HEAVEN/FEAST OF ALL SAINTS BOXED SET--These two classics in one set, oversized quality paperbacks. Rice's acclaimed early novels, The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven, carry readers into two
unforgettable worlds--those of 18th-century Italy's adulated castrati male sopranos and
19th-century New Orleans' beautiful, doomed Free People of Color. $20.80
CRY TO HEAVEN--Hardcover. The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly
society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful
bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses
of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned
as half men. $20.97
FEAST OF ALL SAINTS--Softcover. This novel offers readers a probing, lyrical exploration of New Orleans in the
days before the Civil War. $5.59
SERVANT OF THE BONES--Hardcover. Her first book since Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and
Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.
He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he
journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the
Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in
confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a
life of evil and destruction.
$18.20
Erotica
SLEEPING BEAUTY BOXED SET--Large softcover set of all three books in the Beauty series. Anne Rice casts her lurid gaze upon the the traditional tale of "Sleeping Beauty" under the pen name
of A.N. Roquelaure. Her re-telling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this
lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. $31.08
BELINDA--Mass market paperback. An erotic and controversial tale of seduction and obsession. Belinda is the ultimate fantasy. A golden-haired object of desire, fresh and uninhibited. But to
Jeremy Walker, a handsome and famous 44-year old illustrator of children's books, Belinda is a
forbidden passion, both beguiling and bewitching. $5.59
EXIT TO EDEN--Oversized quality paperback. Lisa--the perfectionist--is a stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer. She is founder and
supreme mistress of The Club--an exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing
flesh. Elliott is a thrill-seeking photographer who has risked his life in war zones around the world
and now seeks the ultimate rush--exploring his darkest sexual self. Join them on a journey to the
limits of erotic pleasure and beyond. $10.40
Anything you couldn't find? Search Amazon's stock below...
