Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality...

Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.

This time kestat really is back with a vengeance, and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair.In this latest mesmerising volulne of The Vampire Chronicles, two irresistible visions collide and merge as Lestat moves through the world of Blackwood Farln and the Mayfair Witches. Here is the inimitable voice-mocking and seductive,cool but full of passion-that wooed millions of readers, as the Valnpire Lestat takes up once more the thrilling story on his own struggle between the lust for blood and the quest for love, between gratification and redemption.

Here too are the brilliantly conceived characters that make up Rice's unique pantheon: Ophelia-like Mona Mayfair,taken over into the reahn of the undead...her ghostly uncle, Julien Mayfaiir, who torments Lestat...Rowan Mayfair, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself'dangerously drawn to Lestat...Rowan's husband, Michael Curry, hero of The Mavfair Chronicles, seeking Lestat's help... Ash Telnpleton, a 5,000 year old Taltos, whose genes live on in the Mayfairs...Patsy. countrv and western singer, killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp.., and at the book's heart, theVampire Lestat himself, demon and angel, drawn to kill but tempted by goodness. Now he fights to save Patsv's ghost fiom the dark realm of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos in their tropical island hideaway,and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair.