Here, Lestat de Lioncourt offers his full autobiography—recounting his life in eighteenth-century France as a penniless provincial aristocrat, a Parisian stage actor, and finally as a vampire in conflict with other members of the Undead, including the coven of the Children of Satan.After a long physical and spiritual journey, Lestat reveals ancient secrets aboutthe vampire tribe that he has kept for more than a century, emerging as a rockstar and rock video maker, eager to start a war with humankind that might bring the Undead together and end in vampiric annihilation.