Anne Rice recently announced that she is continuing her Vampire Chronicles with a new tale for Lestat set in present day. Check out her reveal below!
Rice was on The Dinner Party Show, where she gave the news that she’s returning to her world of very fancy sanguine-tarians with a new novel titled Prince Lestat. It is meant to fill us all in on what the vampires are getting up to these days, and we can’t wait to see what she’s got in store!
W00h!!!!
now i can finally bring myself to read blood canticle and blood and gold.
I’m in!
I found it depressing that she stopped those novels and can’t wait.
Wow! Great news, I’m really looking foward to reading it !!
Pass. Anne Rice has spent the last decade or so bouncing all over the landscape. Personally, I gave up on her when she said in an interview that she refuses to be edited because she polishes each sentence to perfection before moving to the next one. It showed.
I am so happy to hear this! I loved all Anne’s vampire novels. I was deeply disappointed when she stopped writing them. Hoorah for Anne & Lestat!!
She makes a point to say this is a sequel to the first 4/5 novels and remarks that the later novels are more memoirs. So does this mean that the Vampires introduced in Blackwood Farm/Blood Canticle will be included or does this story occur before? Will we finally see SPOILER the human woman that declared her desire to be Lestat’s eternal mate become a Vampire too?
I actually have had trouble re-reading the last two novels. I find it takes pages for Lestat as narrator to get to any point; his monolog simply being tedious. This is something I did not remember experiencing when the novels first came out. I can only assume that the next novel will do the same but while I may no longer be a fan of her writing I do want to remain acquainted with the characters.