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Author Anne Rice will be bringing her vampire protagonist Lestat back for a new novel which will be released this October.

The book, titled 鈥淧rince Lestat,鈥� will be the first book Rice has added to her Vampire Chronicles series since her book 鈥淏lood Canticle鈥� was released in 2003.

The main 鈥淐hronicles鈥� series consists of 10 books so far.

鈥淚t was such a relief and such a pleasure, at last, to be able to speak about the up-and-coming novel, which I finished some time ago,鈥� the author wrote on Facebook. She has discussed the new book on an Internet program hosted by her son Christopher Rice called 鈥溾�� as well as at a sales conference, according to publisher Knopf.

鈥淚t is a big vampire chronicle," she said of the new book on 鈥淒inner.鈥� "It's all about Lestat and all about the vampires and what they're doing right now. How they're coming to terms with everything that's happened to them, and how Lestat is dealing with demands from all sides that he step forward and become some sort of leader of the tribe.鈥�

鈥淧rince鈥� will be released on Oct. 28 by Knopf.

Rice released her debut novel 鈥�Interview with the Vampire,鈥� which featured Lestat, in 1976 and the book was later adapted into a 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst.

Rice was initially not impressed with the choice of Cruise, telling that "the Tom Cruise casting is so bizarre, it's almost impossible to imagine how it's going to work." However, she later apparently changed her mind, saying that when she saw the movie, "Tom was Lestat for me."

The movie received mixed reviews and currently holds a score of 59 out of 100 on the review aggregator site .

The "Interview" film was followed by an adaptation of another of Rice鈥檚 novels, 鈥淨ueen of the Damned,鈥� which starred Aaliyah and was released in 2002.

Rice鈥檚 stories were also adapted into a Broadway musical titled 鈥淟estat,鈥� which featured a score by musician Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It opened in 2006 and closed a little less than a month later.