At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.

It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent--and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean.

And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.


有無法抵擋的力量及不屈不撓的精神，但萊斯特卻不斷對抗著一股奇怪且超凡的力量（最終可能與之妥協），它奪取了萊斯特不死的肉體與靈魂。這股古老神祕之力，也就是可怕吸血鬼傳說中的靈，它的魔爪不但遍及整個未知世界，甚至擁有其中的一切力量與歷史。

透過這個靈的故事，讀者得以了解一個古代海上強權的傳說，及一個位於無邊大陸上的天堂秘境。這股靈的力量在過去數千吸血鬼年及《吸血鬼紀事》系列中，都被認為是無害的；這個傳說也述說這股靈的力量幾世紀前建立並統治大西洋上的傳奇帝國，究竟原因為何？是怎麼辦到的？又有何深遠的目的？

我們在了解這影響深遠的強大力量，並欣賞失落亞特蘭大的輝煌時，也將解開亞特蘭提斯失落國土的秘密，及明白為何吸血鬼萊斯特及所有吸血鬼幾千年來，都須對付這個威力無敵、永恆不滅的亞特蘭亞特蘭大之靈。