#26 in Horror
The Vampire Lestat
- 606
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Vampire Lestat” hands the telling to Lestat himself, and the series is livelier for it. Where the first volume was narrated by Louis, here Lestat gives his own account of his past, and some readers enjoy it considerably more than its predecessor. The reach widens into myth and the mood stays dark, across more than six hundred pages. Best taken as the second step in “The Vampire Chronicles” rather than a starting point.
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About the book
The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, while Interview is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Reading order · The Vampire Chronicles
Full order & progress →- Interview with the VampireStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Vampire LestatThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Queen of the Damned
7.57.5 / 10 - The Tale of the Body Thief
7.17.1 / 10 - Memnoch the Devil
7.37.3 / 10 - The Vampire Armand
7.37.3 / 10 - Merrick
7.37.3 / 10 - Blood and Gold
7.67.6 / 10 - Blackwood Farm
7.37.3 / 10 - Blood Canticle
7.27.2 / 10 - Prince Lestat
–Not ranked yet - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
–Not ranked yet - Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince LestatBlood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 561 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 79% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 48 | 9% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 6 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 507 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Vampire Lestat?
It has 606 pages — longer than 85% of the ranked books in Horror.
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