Best Horror Books

Louis de Pointe du Lac, transformed into a vampire in 1791 New Orleans, tells his centuries-long story to a young journalist — a meditation on immortality, guilt, grief, and what it means to remain human while feeding on the living.

Lestat de Lioncourt — the vampire Louis blamed for everything — tells his own story, from an 18th-century French nobleman to a rock star in 1980s New Orleans, revealing the origins of the vampire race and the secrets Louis never knew.

Lestat's rock concert awakens Akasha, the six-thousand-year-old progenitor of all vampires. She emerges with a plan to create a paradise on Earth — by killing most of the men in it. The ancient vampire world must unite or be annihilated.