Akasha is destoryed, Mekare resumes her place and The Queen of the Damned, and all survive. Lestat begins writing a book which records his post-concert adventures. Lestat meets David Talbot for the first time. Lestat tries to end his life by lying in the sun in the Gobi Desert for almost two full days; his skin is slightly bronzed from the experience and he only becomes more powerful. Lestat recovers with the aid of David Talbot.
Lestat encounters Raglan James and agrees to temporarily switch bodies so that he may experience being a mortal man again. Lestat is temporarily duped, but recovers his body and kills Raglan James. Lestat, Louis, and David agree to live together in the New Orleans town house. Lestat, Louis, and David go their seperate ways. Lestat discovers Roger and begins to stalk him.
Lestat kills Roger and speaks with his ghost. Prodded by Gabrielle, he eventually leaves Auvergne with friend and lover Nicolas and heads for Paris, intending to become an actor. During performances, he attracts the attention of an ancient vampire named Magnus, who later abducts him and transforms him into a vampire.
After turning Lestat, Magnus commits suicide, leaving Lestat to fend for himself without any kind of guidance. Lestat finds himself heir to a nearly inexhaustible wealth, and begins an adventure that leads him all around the world. He is very vain and concerned with fashion, and will pause mid-narrative to remind the reader what he is wearing.
He enjoys performing on stage, which he does as both a mortal actor in Paris, France and a vampire in his rock band called The Vampire Lestat, that he forms with a group of humans in the s. Lestat is also fond of music; he sings and plays the piano and violin.
Although he is illiterate as a mortal man, he learns to read and loves literature as a vampire. Our building is currently open for pick-up of materials , 45 minute computer sessions, and browsing of materials. Get Directions. Availability Loading Summary "The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis Request It Find It. Summary: "The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto and San Francisco.
The car is followed by vampires who are annoyed at Lestat causing the car to crash. No one is hurt except Louis' clothes and the vampires who were chasing them also end up burned up by the same unseen force. Lestat, Gabrielle and Louis discuss it and both Gabrielle and Louis agree that the force they felt seemed wild and uncivilized which does not match the description of Marius. Gabrielle and Louis go to rest, and Lestat calls to Marius with his mind and Lestat discovers that Akasha has risen and has also killed Enkil , absorbing his power into herself.
Just as the sun rises Akasha comes to Lestat and takes him away. Lestat has dreams of two red-haired twins but forgets it soon after. Lestat awakens to find himself in the castle where he was born.
Akasha tells him that many vampires all over the world have been destroyed but the people he cares for have been spared. Akasha then teaches him how to use his greater vampiric powers that he now has after drinking from her again. Akasha takes Lestat to the temple that was created by another vampire named Azim to be worshipped by the humans that live there.
Akasha kills this vampire and then proceeds to start killing all the men in the temple. She asks for Lestat's help in this task and although Lestat is very reluctant to do so, he eventually joins in with the massacre and finds that he enjoys it. Akasha takes Lestat to other cities and repeats the killings but Lestat doesn't join in this time. Lestat tries to reason with Akasha and persuade her against killing almost the entire male population but she doesn't listen to him. Akasha then goes with Lestat to see the remaining vampires who have gathered with one of the red-haired twins Maharet who he has dreamt about.
Akasha tries to get these vampires who include all the people Lestat loves to side with her and help her in her in the massacre because it will supposedly make the world a better place. Lestat and the other vampires once more try and reason with her, telling her that this is impossible to do and also an insane thing to try.
Akasha refuses to accept this and when the other twin arrives the sister of Maharet, named Mekare Akasha is killed by the twins. Lestat then goes with the rest of the vampires to an island bought by Armand the "Night Island" near Miami. Lestat stays in his room for a month writing the story of The Queen of The Damned.
Lestat eventually leaves the island to find Louis who has returned to New Orleans. Lestat finds Louis and then takes him to the Talamasca offices in London, where they meet David Talbot and Lestat gives him his phone number.
In The Tale of the Body Thief , Lestat is now good friends with David Talbot who is in his early seventies and the superior general of the Talamasca order who he visits quite a lot. Lestat is also being haunted by dreams and visions of Claudia. Lestat has grown very lonely and is very weary of life and plans to kill himself. He visits David to tell him this and despite David's protests, Lestat flies to the desert. In the desert when the sun is rising Lestat rises as high as he can so that he burns quicker.
Lestat however, does not die and after a few nights in the desert, he manages to lift himself into the air and fly to David's home. Lestat is severely burned and sleeps in David's home for a while until he is almost completely healed. Lestat is now slightly tanned from the ordeal, but not really hurt anymore. Lestat realizes he is being followed by a man who likes to hand him novels and videotapes for some odd reason. Lestat meets David to talk about this and David points out that the novels and videotapes are all about the same thing: body switching.
Lestat catches hold of the man, Raglan James , who tells him to meet him in New Orleans the next night. Lestat switches bodies with this man, despite warnings from both David and Louis. Lestat finds himself in a human body which he initially finds fantastic until he finds the body he possesses is ill to the point near death.
Lestat tells Gretchen all about who he really is and how he came to be in this mess, but she doesn't really believe it so he promises to come back to her when he is in his own body again and he later does. Lestat goes to David who teaches him how to take possession of another person's body. They manage to track down Lestat's body to a ship where Lestat confronts Raglan James and pushes him out of the body just before sunrise.
Lestat awakens the next night to find David waiting for him. David tells him that Raglan James is now gone. David also says he wants to be a vampire now. Lestat drinks David's blood only to find that it isn't David at all, but Raglan James in David's body. Lestat in a deep rage kills him. Some time passes before Lestat eventually finds the real David in the human body he had previously possessed.
He's been contacting Lestat's man in Paris and reveals that he's at the Brazilian Talamascan location. Lestat goes to visit him one night. David is quite happy both with his new body and with Lestat's presence even admitting how much he missed him even though David notes that Lestat seems to be very angry and asks him why.
Lestat says that he doesn't know and that his temper has been flaring a lot these days. The first thing Lestat notices is how the much younger body is very harmonious with David in it. He also notes how very attractive his friend now looks and how happy he is. Then as they talk, Lestat learns that David isn't at all ill like how he was when he was in his original body. In fact, David is very healthy. Lestat then reminds David of a conversation of theirs where Lestat told him of a dream of his involving David as a young man in the jungle.
In the dream, David is in a much younger version of his original body and he's being hunted by a very big tiger. In Lestat's dream, little does young David know there's such a gigantic tiger that's hunting him. At first, Lestat is deeply worried for his friend and doesn't know why he dreamt such a thing, but later he comes to conclude that he himself is a very powerful predator and that the huge tiger symbolizes himself in the dream.
So, it is he who is truly hunting David. After talking about the dream again with David, Lestat reveals to David that he's returned to his more evil nature. He also mentions that seeing him was only one of the reasons of why he came. Lestat also came to fulfil his prophetic dream his great desire which is to make David into a vampire.
David is very alarmed by this and reminds Lestat that Lestat once told him that he would never harm him, but just as quickly Lestat willingly admits that he lied. He lied both to himself and to David and that is what his latest adventure taught him, that he lies. Lestat then mocks David's life's work, tells him that nothing in the whole world can save him, tries to seduce him by telling him that The Talamascans don't really care about him, that he is David's only friend in this world and by how much he loves him.
David puts up a very good and brave fight and says that he'll die first, but in the end, Lestat succeeds. Lestat promises David that he'll never let him die thus meaning either by an immense loss of blood or by any other type of a mortal's life limits, especially by sickness and old age. Lestat warns him not to fight, but David does anyway which Lestat secretly really enjoys.
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