Anne Rice is set to release a new novel in The Vampire Chronicles series and she's bringing back everyone's favorite vampire!

Today was a great day for Anne Rice fans as she officially announced her new book! To make things even better the new book will be the newest chapter in her The Vampire Chronicles series! Rice appeared on her son's internet talk show The Dinner Party Show to make the announcement and it was clear that she was very excited to do so. She finished writing the novel last August so keeping this kind of a secret must have been tough!

The new book will be titled Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles and will follow Lestat and the others in the wake of the events that occurred in The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil.  

"It is a big Vampire Chronicle, and it's all about Lestat and all about the vampires and what they're doing right now, how they're coming to terms with everything that's happened to them and how Lestat is dealing with the demand from all sides that he step forward and become some sort of leader of the tribe," "It's a sequel to the first five Vampire Chronicles. This is really the follow-up to all of that." 

This is the first time that Rice has returned to The Vampire Chronicles since the last book in 2003 and it appears as though Lestat's voice has returned with such a strong presence that he could be sticking around for further novels. Rice admits that,

"I feel like this is novel one of a new incarnation of The Vampire Chronicles." 

How about that! Not only are fans getting a new book soon but Rice is open to writing more!

Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles will hit bookstores on October 28, 2014. Pre-orders begin March 16, 2014.



Source: Dread Central