The essential authors of science fiction, fantasy & horror — and where to start reading them.
Series Guide
by Anne Rice
Louis, Lestat, Claudia and the immortal demi-monde of New Orleans and Paris: Rice's saga of vampires as narrators, philosophers and catastrophic romantics.
The founding text of sympathetic vampire fiction — ancestor of everything from Buffy's brooding ensemble to paranormal romance entire — filmed in 1994 with Cruise and Pitt and serialised by AMC; among the bestselling horror novels ever.
The volume that built the Vampire Chronicles into a saga and a phenomenon — Lestat became the model immortal antihero, and the book's vampire-as-rock-star conceit defined gothic culture's 1980s–90s imagination.