Anne Rice

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1976
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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About the Author

Howard Allen Frances O'Brien was born on 04 October 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was the second of four daughters of Irish Catholic parents, Katherine "Kay" Allen and Howard O'Brien. In 1961, she married Stan Rice, who passed away in 2002. They had two children, Christopher (1978) and Michele (1966-1972). She started to published in 1970s, and became a published phenomenon. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

Anne Rice died on Saturday 11 December 2021 due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80.

The author’s son Christopher revealed the news on Facebook and said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony.

Full Series List in Order

Christ the Lord

1 - Out of Egypt (Nov-2005)
2 - The Road to Cana (Mar-2008)

Lives of the Mayfair Witches

1 - Witching Hour (Oct-1990)
2 - Lasher (Sep-1993)
3 - Taltos (Sep-1994)

New Tales of the Vampires

1 - Pandora (Mar-1998)
2 - Vittorio the Vampire (Mar-1999)

Ramses the Damned

1 - The Mummy or Ramses the Damned (May-1989)
2 - The Passion of Cleopatra (Mar-2011)
3 - The Reign of Osiris (Feb-2022)

The Songs of the Seraphim

1 - Angel Time (Nov-2009)
2 - Of Love and Evil (Dec-2010)

The Vampire Chronicles

1 - Interview With the Vampire (May-1976)
2 - The Vampire Lestat (Sep-1985)
3 - The Queen of the Damned (Sep-1988)
4 - The Tale of the Body Thief (Oct-1992)
5 - Memnoch the Devil (Jul-1995)
6 - The Vampire Armand (Oct-1998)
7 - Merrick (Oct-2000)
8 - Blood and Gold (Oct-2001)
9 - Blackwood Farm (Sep-2002)
10 - Blood Canticle (Oct-2003)
11 - Prince Lestat (Nov-2014)
12 - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Dec-2016)
13 - Blood Communion (Oct-2018)

A Vampire/Witches Chronicle

Merrick (Oct-2000)

The Wolf Gift Chronicles

1 - The Wolf Gift (Feb-2012)
2 - The Wolves of Midwinter (Oct-2013)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Interview With the Vampire

    The Vampire Chronicles - 1

    THE VAMPIRE SPEAKS... of his first two hundred years...of his dark journey in an undying life...of his unnatural, erotic alliance with the beautiful Claudia, whose passions were locked forever in the body of a child... Divorced from human nature...

  • The Feast of All Saints

    They were the copper-skinned half-castes and quadroons of New Orleans-slave-holding shopkeepers and merchants, raven-haired mistresses to rich white planters, French-speaking artists and writers. Marcel-the young, blue-eyed scholar, sensitive, lon...

  • Cry to Heaven

    In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose ...

  • The Vampire Lestat

    The Vampire Chronicles - 2

    Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through ...

  • The Queen of the Damned

    The Vampire Chronicles - 3

    A feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save"...

  • The Mummy or Ramses the Damned

    Ramses the Damned - 1

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ramses the Great returns in this “darkly magical” (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice“The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.” -- San Francisco ChronicleRamses the Great lives!But hav...

  • Witching Hour

    Lives of the Mayfair Witches - 1

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles -- the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than ju...

  • The Ultimate Dracula

  • The Tale of the Body Thief

    The Vampire Chronicles - 4

    For centuries, Lestat--vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals--has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and ...



  • Lasher

    Lives of the Mayfair Witches - 2

    At the center of Anne Rice's brilliant new novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilig...

  • Taltos

    Lives of the Mayfair Witches - 3

    "WHAT CAN I CONFESS? I'M ASHLAR. I'M A TALTOS. It's centuries since I've seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I've heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost....

  • Memnoch the Devil

    The Vampire Chronicles - 5

    "STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."
    --New York Daily News

    "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat...

  • Servant of the Bones

    In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.He is ghost, genii, dem...

  • Violin

    In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day wor...

  • Pandora

    New Tales of the Vampires - 1

    Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his f...

  • The Vampire Armand

    The Vampire Chronicles - 6

    See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceIn the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling wor...

  • Vittorio the Vampire

    New Tales of the Vampires - 2

    "[A] LUSHLY DESCRIBED STORY OF HOW VITTORIO DI RINIARI BECAME A VAMPIRE ... In the year 1450, he witnesses the massacre of his entire family by a band of demons. Fleeing from the primal scene, he follows the fiends in search of vengeance, and instead...

  • Merrick

    A Vampire/Witches Chronicle
    The Vampire Chronicles - 7

    In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds--those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witc...

  • Blood and Gold

    The Vampire Chronicles - 8

    Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires--in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fa...



  • Blackwood Farm

    The Vampire Chronicles - 9

    Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious dining rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgang...

  • Blood Canticle

    The Vampire Chronicles - 10

    Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality. . . .
    ...

  • Horror Between the Sheets

    Horror Between the Sheets, The Best of CSM B&W, presents the best short stories and poems from the first 16 innovative issues of CSM. This anthology features the writings of Bram Stoker Award winning Mark McLaughlin, award winning Jeremy Russell, Ori...

  • Out of Egypt

    Christ the Lord - 1

    With the Holy Land in turmoil, seven-year-old Jesus and his family leave Egypt for the dangerous road home to Jerusalem. As they travel, the boy tries to unlock the secret of his birth and comprehend his terrifying power to work miracles. Anne Rice's...

  • The Road to Cana

    Christ the Lord - 2

    It's a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. All who know and love Jesus find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take. After his baptism, he is at last ready to confront his destiny. At the weddin...

  • Angel Time

    The Songs of the Seraphim - 1

    It’s the present day. Toby O’Dare -- aka Lucky the Fox -- is a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. He’s a soulless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted whe...

  • The Master of Rampling Gate

    Vook presents a powerful story by the undisputed Queen of Vampire Literature, Anne Rice. The Master of Rampling Gate is a chilling tale of vampiric seduction enhanced by seductive videos about vampires, the black plague, the gothic style, and Anne...

  • Of Love and Evil

    The Songs of the Seraphim - 2

    Anne Rice’s magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with another metaphysical adventure full of angels and assassins. Barely recovered from his previous divine mission, former contract killer Toby O'Dare is once again summoned by th...

  • The Passion of Cleopatra

    Ramses the Damned - 2

    From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles -- Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle...

  • The Wolf Gift

    The Wolf Gift Chronicles - 1

    The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the...



  • Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones

    • Anne Rice, among the most iconic creators in horror, brings one of her richest stories to the graphic novel form. A tale of murder, demonic revenge, and the redemptive power of faith, Servant of the Bones is ornately illustrated by the New Y...

  • Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story

    A richly-illustrated graphic novel adaptation of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire," told through the eyes of the vampire Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the vampire Lestat. Though she spends many years of happiness w...

  • The Wolves of Midwinter

    The Wolf Gift Chronicles - 2

    Now in her new novel, as lush and romantic in detail and atmosphere as it is sleek and steely in storytelling, Anne Rice takes us once again to the rugged coastline of Northern California, to the grand mansion at Nideck Point, and further explores th...

  • The Wolf Gift: The Graphic Novel

    When reporter Reuben Golding arrives at a secluded mansion at the request of the home's mysterious female owner, he doesn't expect this assignment will lead to him being inexplicably attacked-bitten-by a beast shadowed in darkness. This single event ...

  • Prince Lestat

    The Vampire Chronicles - 11

    THE VAMPIRE WORLD IS IN CRISIS... Old vampires, roused from deep slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn their kin in cities across the globe, from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to San Francisc...

  • Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

    The Vampire Chronicles - 12

    From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. ...

  • Blood Communion

    The Vampire Chronicles - 13

    The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part suspense--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, ...

  • The Reign of Osiris

    Ramses the Damned - 3

    The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary Anne Rice, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war. A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powe...

Award-Winning Books by Anne Rice

Of Love and Evil
2011 Christianity Today Book Award -- Fiction
Prince Lestat
2014 Goodreads Choice Award -- Horror
Witching Hour
1991 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anne Rice has published 37 books.

Anne Rice does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Reign of Osiris, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire, was published in May 1976.

Yes. Anne Rice has 8 series.
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