Memnoch the Devil
core novel 1995 The Vampire Chronicles
Record
| First published | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.76 (87,906 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 354 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780394281261 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Memnoch the Devil begins when Lestat kills a mobster whose ghost then approaches him with an unusual request: protect his estranged daughter Dora, a televangelist. As Lestat looks into Dora's situation, he becomes convinced he is being stalked by a powerful supernatural presence, and soon meets a being calling himself Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Memnoch takes Lestat on an extraordinary journey through Heaven and Hell, presenting him with an alternative account of cosmic history and the origins of good and evil that challenges everything Lestat believed about his own damned nature. Memnoch's purpose in showing Lestat this vision, and what he wants from him in return, drives the novel's central tension.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Vampire Chronicles
- Series: The Vampire Chronicles core; position 5 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 5 of 13: previous The Tale of the Body Thief (1992) · next The Vampire Armand (1998)
Sources
← The Vampire Chronicles dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.