Synopsis

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Pandora

In a cafe in modern-day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the fearless and beautiful Pandora begins to tell her tale of treachery, vengeance and love stretching across two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Caesar Augustus, Pandora was first introduced to the blood-tainted cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn even further into the dark, ancient rites. Now, looking back across the centuries, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans, to find the love of her early life, Marius, and to see once again the Vampire Lestat...

The Vampire Armand

Eternally young, angelic in appearance, the Vampire Armand returns to New Orleans where the Vampire Lestat lies in the deepest of sleeps. There, in the dark, dramatic American South, Armand tells his tale, and recalls the brutality, magnificent decadence and devil worship of his past. From a half-forgotten childhood in Russia to slavery in Constantinople; from Renaissance Venice, where he is saved from death by the dark gift of Marius, the greatest vampire of them all, to nineteenth-century Paris, where he is the leader of the Theatre des Vampires.

But now, in New Orleans, Armand is forced to make a decision. Finally, he must choose between his existence of twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.

About the Author

Born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, Anne Rice is the author of the phenomenally successful Vampire Chronicles beginning with Interview with the Vampire. She has also written twenty-one other novels, inlcuding three books in the Mayfair Witches sequence. After many years in San Francisco, she now lives in California.

Anne Rice,原名霍華德.愛倫.奧布裏安，1941年生於美國路易斯安那。1976年創作《夜訪吸血鬼》（Interview with the Vampire ），並在接下來的25年間接連創作瞭《吸血鬼萊斯特》（The Vampire Lestat 1987），《被詛咒的女王》（The Queen of the Damned 1989），《偷屍賊的故事》（The Tale of the Body Thief 1992），《惡魔邁諾剋》（Memnoch the Devil 1995），《潘朵拉》（Pandora 1998），《吸血鬼阿曼德》(The Vampire Armand 1998)，《吸血鬼維多利奧》（Vittorio the Vampire 1999），《梅瑞剋》（Merrick 2000），《血和黃金》（Blood and Gold 2001），《布萊剋伍德莊園》（Blackwood Farm 2002），《血之頌歌》（Blood Canticle 2003）以其非凡的想象力構建起一個吸血鬼族的史詩。