About the book: 2022 / The dramatic story of a vampire retelling his life on this and the other side of existence - the French colonies in Louisiana, 19th century Paris, a remote village in Carpathians... The inhabitants of the world of darkness, this is evil incarnate - are they, as people, capable of suffering and rejoicing, loving and lamenting losses, is there really a remnant of humanity preserved in their hearts?.. Written literally in a month and a half in memory of a six-year-old daughter who died of leukemia, the novel “Interview with the Vampire” long ago went beyond the narrow boundaries of the genre and became a world classic on the level of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” With its appearance in 1973, it anticipated Stephenie Meyer's famous Twilight, and the 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas brought the book even greater popularity. The novel's total circulation to date has exceeded a record 15 million copies, making it perhaps the best-selling book by a contemporary author in the history of the book trade. Interview with the Vampire marked the beginning of the multi-volume Vampire Chronicles, which includes The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned ", which together with the first novel form a single trilogy. In the first of the sequels, the confession of the vampire Lestat is given, who is trying to find the origins of his eternal existence. Filled with boundless imagination, this narrative allows you to lift the curtain on ancient secrets, penetrate into the secrets of ancient magic, look into the abyss filled with passions - the abyss called the human soul... In the next book, “Queen of the Damned,” the Mother of all vampires awakens from a six-thousand-year sleep. Her dream is to save humanity and reign together with the vampire Lestat in a new world built according to vampire laws. But is original evil really capable of creating beauty and harmony??