What is Interview with the Vampire About and Why Should I Care?

You'll have to Interview the vampire yourself to find out what it's all about. Vampires might not exist today without her. Don't disagree with them, because Anne might sic them on you ( source). In 2011, she made the jump from vampires to werewolves with her most recent series of novels: The Wolf Gift Chronicles.Īny of Anne Rice's People of the Page-that's what she calls her fans-will tell you that Anne is just as relevant today as she was in the groovy 70s. Interview was adapted to the big screen in 1994 with big stars like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst, and since then, Rice has branched out to write about mummies, angels, castrated opera singers, and Jesus-just to name a few of her subjects. Rice has followed Louis, Lestat and others throughout her long-running Vampire Chronicles series, which concluded with a tenth book, Blood Canticle, in 2003. Immortality has never looked so unappealing. As he tells his tale, he reveals the eternal inner torment of a vampire forced to live with Lestat, his overbearing creator, and Claudia, a five-year-old vampire, who is a woman trapped in a child's body forever. Interview with the Vampire stars Louis de Pointe du Lac, the broodiest of broody vampires (take that, Angel). ( source) From the ashes, she built a new vampire, one who was self-conscious, who was conflicted, and one who, yes, dressed like a teenaged Goth. Anne Rice took the classic Dracula-influenced vampire myth-you know, that myth about vampires as scary soulless hunters with no conscience and a never-ending hunger for blood-and dragged it out into the sun to fry. In 1976, Interview with the Vampire reinvented the vampire novel. Thanks, Steph!) But a different literary lady is responsible for the initial surge in vampire popularity, and that lady is Anne Rice. You might think we have Stephenie Meyer to blame for the new wave of vampires: brooding, sensitive, positively sparkling. Now that we think about it, maybe you should check inside your closet. We mean on bookshelves, on your TV, in movie theaters, in video games… you know, everywhere.

We don't mean in your closet, or under your bed. Take a look around you: vampires are everywhere! Wait, wait, don't get alarmed.

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