Книга повествует о происхождении вампиров, о том, как увлечение древнеегипетской королевы Акаши потусторонним миром и его темными духами, превратило ее в вампира. От Акаши вампиризм стал распространяться по всему миру.
Прошла не одна тысяча лет, и в...
После головокружительных испытаний, которым вампир Лестат подвергся в романе "История похитителя тел", он чувствует себя еще более одиноким и растерянным, чем тогда, когда хотел отказаться от своей сущности. Теперь же перед ним стоит одна из главных ди...
Thirteen Stories of Mystery and Excitement selected by the Master of Suspense.
Illustrated by Harold Isen.
Include:
"The Chinese Puzzle Box" by Agatha Christie,
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell,
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier, ...
Rice departs from her usual subject matter to pen this curious portrait of a seven-year-old Jesus, who departs Egypt with his family to return home to Nazareth. Rice's painstaking historical research is obvious throughout, whether she's showing the dif...
Серия: The Mayfair Chronicles. В 3 томах 1999-2001 г.; Изд-во: Ballantine Books
Returning to the Mayfair clan she introduced in The Witching Hour , Rice offers another vast, transcontinental saga of witchcraft and demonism in the tradition of Gothic melodrama. The eponymous Lasher is a demon spirit who preys on female Mayfairs in ...
Серия: The Mayfair Chronicles. В 3 томах 1999-2001 г.; Изд-во: Ballantine Books
Cutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries in this continuation of Rice's series of novels about witches and the supernatural. A "taltos" is the superhuman result of the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromoso...
Серия: The Mayfair Chronicles. В 3 томах 1999-2001 г.; Изд-во: Ballantine Books
"We watch and we are always here" is the motto of the Talamasca, a saintly group with extrasensory powers which has for centuries chronicled the lives of the Mayfairs--a dynasty of witches that brought down a shower of flames in 17th-century Scotland, ...
The Mummy subtitle is Ramses the Damned. We all know about Ramses II king of Egypt, his mummy was discovered late in the 19th century and is in display in the Egytian Cairo Museum. Anne Rice for her latest book takes the legendary Ramses to new height....
This tale of a tormented musical genius moves across time and place from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It traces three charismatic figures bound to one another by a passionate commitment to music as a means of raptur...
Четвертая книга вампирских хроник, в которой Лестат получает тело смертного человека, а его собственное тело похищено неизвестным существом, незамысловато именующимся Похитителем Тел.