Vampire Chronicles Series - Originally Published Oct. 2002
Random House
September 2003
Featuring: Quinn Blackwood
626 pages ISBN: 0345443683 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious
drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark
strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of
Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth
by a mysterious doppelganger, "Goblin," a spirit from a
dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him
from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire,
losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted
immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric
and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from
Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New
Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn
seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of
freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably
back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it
holds.