The Story Memnoch the Devil takes place in downtown New York, it is a very cold stormy winter, and very dark and weird things happen here. The story takes place in modern times around 1994.
Lestat is the main character in this story and he is a very pale skinny vampire, in the begining of the story he is stalking a very powerful cocain dealer/art collecter(roger), he has been stalking him for 6 months, at the time he is stalking him someone or something is stalking lestat(memnoch the devil).
In the beginning of the book, Lestat, is a very smart vampire referred to as "Brat Prince" he stalks a wealthy art collector. Lestat soon becomes obsessed with his mortal victim, Roger, following him and trying to live his life through Roger's eyes. Lestat quickly develops a love for Roger, due to Roger's take on life, and his actions. Lestat comes to the reality that Roger is sick and evil, through his past was full of murders of family members and evil acts. Even all of this added to the fact that Roger was a smuggler of religous artifacts, Lestat's love for Roger still lived on. Lestat observes his own actions and concludes that he himself is sick and evil as well, due to his obsessive stalking. Lestat sees his morals are in fact worse than those of Roger, when he brutally slays and mutates his carcass. With this Lestat concludes that he was in fact the sick and evil one, more so than Roger was.
Lestat is soon encountered by Roger's apparition and realizes the grave mistake he made, fueled by his ignorance. Throughout his stalking of Roger, Lestat encountered a demon, which he thought to be the devil. Lestat was so occupied with his stalking; he neglected to pay much attention of this demon. Lestat was confronted again by the demon the night he slaughtered his beloved Roger. This caused Lestat to realize the devil was observing Lestat's own .
