Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Chapters (48)
Cover
ALSO BY ANNE RICE
Prince Lestat
The Wolves of Midwinter
The Wolf Gift
Of Love and Evil
Angel Time
Called Out of Darkness
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Blood Canticle
Blackwood Farm
Blood and Gold
Merrick
Vittorio, the Vampire
The Vampire Armand
Pandora
Violin
Servant of the Bones
Memnoch the Devil
Taltos
Lasher
The Tale of the Body Thief
The Witching Hour
The Mummy
The Queen of the Damned
The Vampire Lestat
Cry to Heaven
The Feast of All Saints
Interview with the Vampire
UNDER THE NAME ANNE RAMPLING
Exit to Eden
Belinda
UNDER THE NAME A. N. ROQUELAURE
Beauty’s Kingdom
Beauty’s Release
Beauty’s Punishment
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Title Page
Copyright
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2016 by Anne O’Brien Rice
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rice, Anne, [date]—author.
Title: Prince Lestat and the realms of Atlantis / Anne Rice.
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. | Series: Vampire chronicles ; 12
Identifiers: LCCN 2016032866 | ISBN 9780385353793 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385353809 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lestat (Vampire), 1760– —Fiction. | Atlantis (Legendary place)—Fiction. | Spirit possession—Fiction. | Vampires—Fiction. | Paranormal fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Occult & Supernatural. | FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal. | FICTION / Suspense. | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction. | Horror fiction. | Occult fiction.
Ebook ISBN 9780385353809
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover design by Oliver Munday
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Dedication
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO
The undefeated and retired
babyweight champion of the world
and
Mitey Joe,
without whom the book might not have been born,
and
my old friends,
Shirley Stuart and Bill Seely,
and
friends and fellow writers
of my Northern California days:
Cleo, Maria, Carole, Dorothy, Jim, Carolyn, Candy, Lee, and others
and
once again,
to
the People of the Page
who give me so much more than I can ever give them.
Epigraph
Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
—ECCLESIASTES
The New International Version
A Brief History of the Vampires
Blood Genesis
In the beginning were the spirits. They were invisible beings, heard and seen only by the most powerful sorcerers or witches. Some were thought to be malevolent; some were praised as good. They could find lost objects, spy upon enemies, and now and then affect the weather.