The Vampire Lestat is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

2014 Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition

Copyright © 1985 by Anne O’Brien Rice
Excerpt from Prince Lestat by Anne Rice copyright © 2014 by Anne O’Brien Rice

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, in 1985. This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC.

Portions of this work originally appeared in The Twilight Zone magazine.

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This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book Prince Lestat by Anne Rice, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

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