As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep,and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. In this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.
