Anne Rice - New Tales of the Vampires: Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

Praise forPandora

HYPNOTICALLY READABLE.
Mademoiselle

Rice writes as vividly about the turbulent Roman Empire as she has about New Orleans, Venice, and Paris. Her prodigious research, evident in the peripheral stories that inform us about Pandoras background and character, provides a bridge to the next installmentthe much anticipated tale of Armand.

Trenton Times

A marvelous book Pandora in many ways fulfills the promise she first showed in Interview. She is the most fascinating character to come from Rices fertile imagination.

Grand Rapids Press

Pandora has long been one of her more elusive characters, so fans will relish this vivid rendering of her life and times.

Publishers Weekly

A nicely crafted, action-packed tale.

New York Post

Praise forVittorio, the Vampire

A FASCINATING TALE REAFFIRMS RICES TITLE AS THE QUEEN OF VAMPIRE LITERATURE.

The Denver Post

Rice resurrects the opulent world of the Renaissance. The destruction of the trio of angels are the highlights of this installment of the New Tales of the Vampires. Rice does an excellent job of contrasting the tortured souls of the vampires and the pure beauty of the angels.

The Tampa Tribune

A taut, finely crafted plot, shot through with lush imagery and compelling history, seduces the reader into Vittorios world as surely as Vittorio himself is seduced into the realm of the Undead Rice once again makes us see the world through the eyes of the vampire. Vittorio, the Vampire is at once a morality play, a vampiric and sensual Romeo and Juliet.

Fredericksburg Freelance Star

A neatly compressed little tale, with many pleasures, not the least of which is its ability to transport the reader to another time, another place, filled with angels and demons, light and darkness Rice is at her best when writing of a historical period she loves, and the Renaissance is obviously dear to her heart. The political intrigues of the conflict between Florence and Milan, the renowned patronage and complex politics of the Medici, the scandalous life and divine art of Fra Lippo Lippi, the splendors of Michelozzos Dominican Monastery of San Marcoall are described in vivid detail.

New Orleans Times-Picayune

BY ANNE RICE

Interview with the Vampire
The Feast of All Saints
Cry to Heaven
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned
The Mummy
The Witching Hour
The Tale of the Body Thief
Lasher
Taltos
Memnoch the Devil
Servant of the Bones
Violin
Pandora
The Vampire Armand
Vittorio, the Vampire
Merrick
Blood and Gold
Blackwood Farm
Blood Canticle

UNDER THE NAME ANNE RAMPLING
Exit to Eden
Belinda

UNDER THE NAME A. N. ROQUELAURE
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beautys Punishment
Beautys Release

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Pandora copyright 1998 by Anne OBrien Rice
Vittorio, the Vampire copyright 1999 by Anne OBrien Rice

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Pandora was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1998. Vittorio, the Vampire was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1999.

Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

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A Library of Congress Control Number can be obtained from the publisher upon request.

eISBN: 978-0-307-76265-8

v3.1

Dedicated
To
Stan, Christopher, and Michele Rice

To
Suzanne Scott Quiroz
and
Victoria Wilson

To the memory of
John Preston

To
the Irish of New Orleans
who, in the 1850s,
built on Constance Street
The Great Church of St. Alphonsus,
while passing on to us
through faith, architecture, and art
a splendid monument

To
The glory that was Greece
and
the grandeur that was Rome

Of Mrs. Moore and the echo in the Marabar Caves:

but the echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur Pathos, piety, couragethey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. FORSTER
A Passage to India

Thou believest that there is
one God; thou doest well: the devils
also believe, and tremble.

The General Epistle of James
2:19

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations

Another part of our same belief is that many creatures will be damned; for example the angels who fell from heaven through pride, and are now fiends; and those men on earth who die apart from the Faith of Holy Church, namely, the heathen; and those, too, who are christened but live unchristian lives, and so die out of loveall these shall be condemned to hell everlastingly, as Holy Church teaches me to believe. This being so I thought it quite impossible that everything should turn out well, as our Lord was now showing me. But I had no answer to this revelation save this: What is impossible to you is not impossible to me. I shall honour my word in every respect, and I will make everything turn out for the best. Thus was I taught by Gods grace.

JULIAN OF NORWICH
Revelations of Divine Love

OT twenty minutes has passed since you left me here in the caf, since I said No to your request, that I would never write out for you the story of my mortal life, how I became a vampirehow I came upon Marius only years after he had lost his human life.

Now here I am with your notebook open, using one of the sharp pointed eternal ink pens you left me, delighted at the sensuous press of the black ink into the expensive and flawless white paper.

Naturally, David, you would leave me something elegant, an inviting page. This notebook bound in dark varnished leather, is it not, tooled with a design of rich roses, thornless, yet leafy, a design that means only Design in the final analysis but bespeaks an authority. What is written beneath this heavy and handsome book cover will count, sayeth this cover.