Violin is a novel by American horror writer Anne Rice, released on 15 October 1997. It moves away from her previous stories about vampires and witches to tell a ghost story.

In this powerful confessional novel the creator of Lestat and Azriel conjures up another ghost from the pantheon of the undead: the mesmeric and dangerous Stefan - part incubus, part inspiration. The nineteenth-century violinist appears on the street corner in twentieth-century New Orleans, to haunt Triana as she grieves for the death of her husband. Like Anne Rice herself, Triana is one of four sisters of a Catholic family, she is in her fifties, her alcoholic mother died when she was fourteen, and her own daughter has died tragically of leukemia.