Pandora is the 1998 novel by Anne Rice that features Pandora as its vampire narrator. It is part of Rice’s The New Tales of the Vampires series and presents the character as an ancient vampire recounting her life.
The novel expands a character first introduced in Rice’s earlier vampire fiction. Its Pandora is not the woman from Hesiod’s Greek myth, although the shared name invites comparison. Rice gives her a detailed personal history involving ancient Rome, her relationship with Marius de Romanus, and the supernatural world developed across the author’s vampire novels.
Pandora uses a first-person narrative and is framed as a written account of memory and identity. The book belongs to Rice’s larger vampire universe, which includes the better-known novels Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. Its title therefore refers to a fictional vampire character rather than directly retelling the myth of Pandora’s jar.