The Queen of the Damned

by Anne Rice

As Lestat prances onstage as a rock star holding millions spellbound, mortals and vampires all over the world begin to have dreams about red-haired, green-eyed twin women who suffered a horrible tragedy in the distant past. Queen of the Damned unravels the mystery of the first vampires: the vampire Queen Akasha, awakened from her deep sleep with plans of destroying all the world's men; the twins Mekare and Maharet, whose spiritual powers drew them into the circumstances of the first vampires' Making, thousands of years earlier in pre-dynastic Egypt. It falls to Lestat, chosen by Akasha as her new consort, to prevent all the world's vampires from being killed, and the earth enslaved by Akasha.

	Hardcover Knopf (1990)
	Paperback Ballantine (1993)
	Softbound Ballantine (1997)