The Vampire Armand Author:Anne Rice The story of Armand from the Interview with the Vampire. We travel with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood, a ruined city under Mongol dominion, and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. We see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades as a ... more »mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. The novel moves through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to 19th century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.« less