In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice´s compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker´s Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a ´thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination. sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable.