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Interview With the Vampire
Book 1 of The Vampire Chronicles
- 349 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1976
- 84 editions
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1 About this book
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. In 1791 Louis was the master of a plantation near New Orleans, grieving for his brother and careless of his own life, when the vampire Lestat chose him as a companion and made him one of the undead. Louis has never stopped being troubled by what he must do to survive, and his long, uneasy life with the cruel and charming Lestat, the child vampire Claudia who joins them, and his search for others of his kind fill the two centuries he describes. Published in 1976, this was Anne Rice's first novel and the beginning of her Vampire Chronicles.
- Horror
- Vampires
- Spanish imprints
- Vampires in fiction
- Ghosts
- Vampiros
- Italy
2 What to expect
A gothic novel told as a confession: a two-hundred-year-old vampire recounts his life to a reporter, beginning on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation. It is less a horror story than a brooding study of guilt, loneliness, immortality and the loss of faith, with a strong undercurrent of desire between its male vampires. The prose is lush and slow, the mood melancholy, and a child vampire makes for its most disturbing chapters.
Good for readers who want: gothic fiction, vampires with a conscience, and lush, melancholy prose.
3 About Anne Rice
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Anne Rice
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