''Prince Lestat'' is a novel by American writer

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, the eleventh in '' The Vampire Chronicles'' series, published on October 28, 2014. Rice had originally stated the novel '' Blood Canticle'' was meant to conclude the series, but in March 2014 she had announced a forthcoming novel that would be a sequel to the first five books and the start of a new series. She also announced via her personal Facebook that she had begun writing a follow-up novel to ''Prince Lestat'', tentatively titled ''Blood Paradise'', then retitled '' Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis''. When Rice was on her son Christopher Rice's radio program, "The Dinner Party with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn", she announced that her novel ''Prince Lestat'' could be considered a sequel to her novel '' The Queen of the Damned'' since many characters that appeared therein will reappear in ''Prince Lestat'', while at the same time, readers might see a revisiting of key themes. Rice's ''Vampire Chronicles'' have sold over 20 million copies in the U.S.

Plot summary

Over a decade after the events of ''Blood Canticle'', the remaining

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s of the world are in chaos. The most famous of them all,

Lestat de Lioncourt Lestat de Lioncourt () is a fictional character appearing in several novels by Anne Rice, including ''The Vampire Lestat'' (1985). He is a vampire and an antihero in the majority of '' The Vampire Chronicles''. Publication history Lestat is in ...

, finds himself called upon to come out of his self-imposed exile to reassert order, and is reunited with fellow vampires ancient and new:

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and Armand, Pandora, Marius, Maharet and Mekare, the former

Talamasca The Talamasca, sometimes known as the Order of the Talamasca, is a fictional secret society described in the works of Anne Rice. It features in both '' The Vampire Chronicles'' and '' Lives of the Mayfair Witches'' series. It is described as a se ...

leader

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and even Lestat's distant mother Gabrielle.

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* {{Anne Rice 2014 American novels Novels by Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles novels Alfred A. Knopf books