Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

An ancient and mysterious entity has taken possession of the vampire Lestat, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis uses this invasion as a portal into the deepest mythology of Anne Rice's vampire world: the lost sea empire of Atalantaya and its long reach across millennia into the present crisis. The twelfth Vampire Chronicles novel is part political drama about Lestat's role as leader of vampire kind and part mythological excavation, uncovering the origins of forces that have quietly shaped the series from its beginning.

Simon Vance is one of the most accomplished voices in prestige audiobook narration, and his command of Rice's elevated, emotionally saturated prose is total. He gives Lestat's characteristic excess and self-awareness their full theatrical weight while keeping the novel's grander cosmological scope from overwhelming its intimate vampire politics. At seventeen-plus hours, this is a deep immersion into Rice's mythology for committed readers of the chronicles.