In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publicationThe time is now. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks-as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently. carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir-young, romantic, cultivated-to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant a