She immediately begins a wholesale slaughter of most of the world's vampires, sparing only a small remnant (including Lestat) who she expects will join her in a crazed crusade against male mortals. Lestat's kiss has awakened Queen Akasha from her 6000 year sleep. Here Lestat and all other vampires pay the price for his obsessive need for fame, his reckless honesty in describing the ``blood drinkers'' among us, and his frenzied rock concert in San Francisco. As before, Rice tells her story in fine melodramatic style, overwriting with zest and exuberance: the text pulses with menace, mystery and violence, and with sensuality verging on erotica. This series was originally intended to run for twelve issues but the final issue was cancelled and never published.The cult audience for Rice's two previous vampire novels, Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, will undoubtedly broaden with this third book, which features the same characters and a more complex plot. Innovation Comics adapted many of The Vampire Chronicles this being the third series adapted and The Vampire Lestat as the series before. The threads are brought together in the twentieth century when the fate of the living and the living dead is rewritten. As these three threads wind seamlessly together, the origins and culture of vampires are revealed, as is the length and breadth of their effect on the mortal world. Awake and angry, Akasha plans to save mankind from itself by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods. Lestat's journey to a cavern deep beneath a Greek Island on his quest for the origins of the vampire race awakened Akasha, Queen of the Damed and mother of all vampires, from her 6,000 year sleep.

Some die on the way, some live to face they terrifying fate their pilgrimage is building to. The dreamers, as if pulled, move toward each other, the nightmare becoming clearer the closer they get. The sleep of a group of men and women, vampires and mortals, around the world is disturbed by a mysterious dream of red-haired twins who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampires will be among the fans that night and that they are committed to destroying him for risking exposing them all. The third story in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel story-lines.

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice