If you’ve ever wanted to read a novel that combines both vampires and mermaids, then you’re in luck. Author Anne Rice recently updated her Facebook to reveal her newest book will be titled Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. So, I guess it’s a good thing vampires aren’t allergic to water?
Standing as Rice’s 36th book, Realms of Atlantic will be available for purchase on November 29th, and the book is currently up for pre-sale on Amazon. Entertainment Weekly exclusively covered the reveal and was even allowed to provide an excerpt of Realms of Atlantis which can be read below:
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In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. It was a chorus as mighty as the wind and the waves, all those voices of the dying. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken.
I woke, in the dark, unable to leave the coffin in the vault in which I slept for fear that the setting sun would burn the young ones.
I held the root now of the great vampire vine on which I was once only another exotic blossom. And if I were cut, or bruised or burned, all the other vampires on the vine would know the pain.
Would the root itself suffer? The root thinks and feels and speaks when he wants to speak. And the root has always suffered. Only gradually had I come to realize it — how profound was the suffering of the root.
Without moving my lips, I asked him: “Amel, what was that city? Where did the dream come from?”
He gave me no answer. But I knew he was there. I could feel the warm pressure on the back of my neck that always meant he was there. He had not gone off along the many branches of the great vine to dream with another.
I saw the dying city again. I could have sworn I heard his voice crying out as the city was broken open.
Of course, Rice is best known for her gothic fiction, particularly the novel Interview with the Vampire. The bestseller was famously turned into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Given its popularity, the novel has since spawned off other sequels to make Rice perhaps the biggest name in vampire literature since Bram Stoker concocted Dracula way back in 1897.
