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Killer--An American male vampire of unknown origin, founder of the Fang Gang, who entered the narrative about 1985.
Davis--A black dancer from New York, a member of the Fang Gang, brought into the Blood by Killer sometime before 1985.
Fareed Bhansali--A brilliant Anglo-Indian doctor and surgeon, brought into the Blood by Seth around 1986 in Mumbai.
Benjamin (Benji) Mahmoud--A twelve-year-old Palestinian Bedouin boy, brought into the Blood by Marius in 1997.
Sybelle--A young American pianist, about twenty, brought into the Blood by Marius in 1997.
Rose--An American girl of around twenty rescued as a small child by Lestat from an earthquake in the Mediterranean around 1995. His ward.
Dr. Flannery Gilman--An American doctor and discredited vampire researcher, brought into the Blood by Fareed in the early twenty-first century.
Viktor--A human experiment conducted under the auspices of Fareed Bhansali and his maker, Seth, along with Dr. Flannery Gilman before her induction into the Blood.
Assorted unnamed fledglings, ghosts, and spirits.
Appendix 2
An Informal Guide to the Vampire Chronicles
1. Interview with the Vampire (1976)--In this, the first published memoir of a vampire within his tribe, Louis de Pointe du Lac tells his life story to a reporter he encounters in San Francisco--Daniel Malloy. Born in the eighteenth century in Louisiana, Louis, a rich plantation owner, encounters the mysterious Lestat de Lioncourt, who offers him immortality through the Blood and Louis accepts--beginning a long spiritual search for the meaning of who and what he has become. The child vampire Claudia and the mysterious Armand of the Theatre des Vampires are central to the story.
2. The Vampire Lestat (1985)--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 about the vampire tribe that he has kept for more than a century, emerging as a rock star and
rock video maker, eager to start a war with humankind that might bring the Undead together and end in vampiric annihilation.
3. The Queen of the Damned (1988)--Though written by Lestat, this story includes multiple points of view from mortals and immortals all over the planet, responding to Lestat's revealing rock music and videos, which awaken the six-thousand-year-old Queen of the Vampires, Akasha, from her long slumber. The first book to deal with the entire tribe of the Undead around the world. This novel contains the first inclusion of the mysterious secret order of mortal scholars known as the Talamasca, who study the paranormal.
4. The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)--Lestat's memoir in which he recounts his disastrous encounter with a clever and sinister mortal named Raglan James, a sorcerer experienced in switching bodies--a battle which forces Lestat into closer involvement with his friend, David Talbot, Superior General of the Talamasca, whose scholarly members are dedicated to the study of the paranormal.
5. Memnoch the Devil (1995)--Lestat narrates a personal adventure, this time filled with devastating shocks and mysteries as he confronts a powerful spirit, Memnoch, claiming to be none other than the Devil of Christian lore, the fallen angel himself, who invites Lestat to journey with him to Heaven and Hell, and seeks to enlist Lestat as a helper in the Christian realm.
6. Pandora (1998)--Published under the series title "New Tales of the Vampires," this story is Pandora's autobiographical confession, recounting her life in the ancient Roman Empire during the time of Augustus and Tiberius, including her great and tragic love affair with the vampire Marius. Though it does recount later events, the book is principally focused on Pandora's first century as a vampire.
7. The Vampire Armand (1998)--Here, Armand, a profound and enigmatic presence in earlier novels, offers his autobiography to the reader, explaining his long life since the time of the Renaissance when he was kidnapped from Kiev and brought to Venice as a boy brothel slave, only to be rescued by the powerful and ancient vampire Marius. Yet another kidnapping puts Armand in the hands of the cruel and notorious Children of Satan, superstitious vampires who worship the Devil. Though Armand concludes his story in the present time and introduces new characters to the Chronicles, most of the account focuses on his earlier years.
8. Vittorio, the Vampire (1999)--One of the "New Tales of the Vampires," this is the autobiography of Vittorio of Tuscany, who becomes a member of the Undead during the Renaissance. This character does not appear elsewhere in the Vampire Chronicles, but he is of the same tribe and does share the same cosmology.
9. Merrick (2000)--Told by David Talbot, this story is centered on Merrick, a Creole woman of color from an old New Orleans family and a member of the Talamasca, who seeks to become a vampire during the last years of the twentieth century. This is a hybrid novel, involving a glimpse of a few characters from another series of books devoted to the history of the Mayfair Witches of New Orleans to whom Merrick is related, but it principally focuses on Merrick's involvement with the Undead, including Louis de Pointe du Lac.
10. Blood and Gold (2001)--Another in the series of vampire memoirs, this time written by the ancient Roman Marius, explaining much about his two thousand years amongst the Undead and the challenges he faced in protecting the mystery of "Those Who Must Be Kept," the ancient parents of the tribe, Akasha and Enkil. Marius offers his side of the story of his love affair with Armand and his conflicts with other vampires. This novel concludes in the present but is principally focused on the past.
11. Blackwood Farm (2002)--A hybrid novel narrated by Quinn Blackwood recounting his personal history and involvement with the Talamasca, the Undead, and the Mayfair Witches of New Orleans, who figure in another book series. Set in a brief period of time in the early twenty-first century.
12. Blood Canticle (2003)--A hybrid novel, narrated by Lestat, recounting his adventures with Quinn Blackwood and with the Mayfair Witches from another series of books. This story focuses on a brief period of time in the twenty-first century.
13. Prince Lestat (2014)--The return of Lestat after years of silence. Many voices and points of view reveal the crises of the worldwide tribe of the Undead.
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