Author Anne Rice is officially revisiting the work that made her a household name.
Over the weekend, the 72-year-old announced on her son’s Internet radio show that she is working on a new novel in her popular Vampire Chronicles series titled Prince Lestat.
Prince Lestat will be a sequel to 1988’s The Queen of the Damned, as well as the first new Vampire Chronicles novel released in over a decade. The last was Blood Canticle, released in 2003.
Rice has been famously ambivalent about returning to her Vampire Chronicles series over the past decade, though she has frequently hinted at ending the series with an existential and “redemptive” novel for series protagonist Lestat de Lioncourt.
Since Rice’s announcement, excited fans have been tweeting like crazy with the hashtag #PrinceLestat:
All hail #PrinceLestat ! #AnneRiceReveal
— Alexandra Bessant (@B_Alley) March 10, 2014
I a) am in Disney and b) have just learned that Anne Rice is publishing a new novel about my fictional boyfriend. #daymade #PrinceLestat
— Nikki (@nicoleemk) March 10, 2014
NEW NOVEL FROM ANNE RICE COMING UP FEATURING LESTAT ONCE MORE. I CAN’T WAIT FOR #PRINCELESTAT
— strawberry mochi (@LoliVixx_) March 10, 2014
O M G 18yo me is FREAKING OUT!!! >___< #PrinceLestat #AnneRiceReveal https://t.co/zpCIfFhaNH
— AntonioSugizo (@AntonioSugizo) March 10, 2014
Im not even going 2B able 2 sleep 2nite after @AnneRiceAuthor‘s announcement on @DinnerPartyShow. #PrinceLestat on 10/28! I’m beyond beyond.
— I Am Brooke (@BossyBr00ke) March 10, 2014
I cannot put into words how fracking stoked I am for the #PrinceLestat novel coming out this fall! >.<
— Stephanie Bally (@StephanieBally) March 10, 2014
I’m ready to read #princelestat NOW, but I have to wait until october
— Amanda (@prisma8slg) March 10, 2014
If you’re under 20 and are having trouble figuring out who this “Lestat” guy is, he was basically the original Edward Cullen, and Vampire Chronicles was the original Twilight in that it was the go-to “vampire romance” for a couple of decades and not nearly as horrible.
Prince Lestat will be released on October, 28 2014.
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