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Laurence Coven (review date 6 November 1988)

SOURCE: “A History of the Undead,” in Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 6, 1988, p. 13.

[In the following review, Coven offers favorable assessment of The Queen of the Damned.]

In Interview With the Vampire, the first volume of the “Vampire Chronicles,” Anne Rice ushers us into the eerily succulent, yet refined world of Louis de Pointe du Lac, a man who became a vampire in late-18th-Century New Orleans.

The second book, The Vampire Lestat, explodes with fury into the world of high-tech 20th-Century San Francisco. Lestat, the charismatic iconoclast of the undead, relates his tale from his human youth as a French nobleman of the early 1700s to his ascension to rock superstardom and cult hero worship as a modern-day vampire.

With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient,...

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1. Introduction
2. Criticism
   1. Pat Hilton (review date 19 December 1982)
   2. E. F. Bleiler (review date 6 November 1988)
   3. Laurence Coven (review date 6 November 1988)
   4. Eric Kraft (review date 27 November 1988)
   5. Frank J. Prial (review date 11 June 1989)
   6. Angela Carter (review date 1 September 1989)
   7. Patrick McGrath (review date 4 November 1990)
   8. Rita Mae Brown (review date 18 November 1990)
   9. Barbara Frey Waxman (essay date Summer 1992)
   10. Carolyn See (review date 25 October 1992)
   11. Elizabeth Hand (review date 10 October 1993)
   12. Paul West (review date 24 October 1993)
   13. Douglas E. Winter (review date 9 October 1994)
   14. Ken Gelder (essay date 1994)
   15. Anne Rice with Mikal Gilmore (interview date 13-27 July 1995)
   16. Kevin Allman (review date 6 August 1995)
   17. Daniel Mendelsohn (review date 11 August 1996)
   18. Sandra Tomc (essay date 1997)
3. Further Reading
4. Copyright