New Tales of the Vampires by Anne Rice

Pandora

The first book in a new series entitled the New Tales of the Vampires, this novel reintroduces David Talbolt (from The Tale of the Body Theif) as a fledgling vampire who is determined to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. He meets the two thousand year old Pandora in a Paris cafe, where she gradually becomes more passionate in recounting the tale of her life as the first vampire ever made by Marius.

Hardcover Info: ISBN 0375401598, Knopf, 1998
Paperback Info: ISBN 0345422384, Random House, 1998

Vittorio the Vampire

"With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders--both sacred and profane--and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence." (summary from Amazon.com)

Paperback Info: ISBN 0345422392, Knopf, 1999
Hardcover Info: ISBN 0375401601, Knopf, 1999

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