Blood Canticle
core novel 2003 The Vampire Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.74 (26,511 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 400 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780375412004 |
| Internal chronology | 10 |
Synopsis
Narrated by Lestat, Blood Canticle follows the young Mayfair witch Mona as a mysterious illness tied to the birth of her daughter exposes a long-hidden secret about the Mayfair family's connection to the Taltos, a rare and ancient race whose existence has been kept quiet within the family for generations. As the revelation unsettles the extended Mayfair household, Lestat becomes increasingly entangled in the family's private affairs, drawn in partly out of fascination and partly through his growing feelings for the married witch Rowan. The novel weaves Lestat's own vampiric perspective into the Mayfairs' ongoing supernatural troubles, bridging Anne Rice's vampire and witch story lines.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Vampire Chronicles
- Series: The Vampire Chronicles core; position 10 of 13 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anne Rice
Notes
- From the series record (The Vampire Chronicles): A continuous, decades-spanning narrative of vampire immortals told mostly through Louis and Lestat, running from the author's 1976 debut to her final volume in 2018; treated as complete following the author's death in December 2021.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Vampire Chronicles: position 10 of 13: previous Blackwood Farm (2002) · next Prince Lestat (2014)
Sources
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