The creator of Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches, and the fantastic worlds they inhabit, now gives readers the first in a series of novels linked together by the fledging vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler. Two-thousand-year-old Pandora is the child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. When David meets Pandora, he persuades her to write the story of her life. 288 pp. National media publicity. National ads. 500,000 print. (Horror)