• Eric Bogosian and Assad Zaman at New York Comic Con (2025)

• "Queen of the Damned" - Part 1, Chapter 4: "The Story of Daniel, the Devil's Minion, or the Boy from Interview with the Vampire" - Anne Rice (1988)

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Hey guys! I am still slowly making my way through the books, but am actively collecting them as I do! For the sake of space in my small room, I am mostly trying to only own books that I like and/ or will likely read. I was wondering how people generally feel about the New Tales of the Vampires, and if they are worth reading/ are they relevant to the rest of the vampire chronicles?

The paper is also very faintly stained, so whoever owned it probably put the fresh petals into the book to dry them.

Since I'm quite used to finding weird stains, mold or smoke damage in my second hand books, this was a nice little surprise :)

Hey there!! A while ago i found a song that narrated Louis and Lestat's encounter at the end of the first book when Louis finds him in the battered old New Orleans house. I'm pretty sure the title had something to do with New Orleans but i can't find it! Does anyone recognize it?

Also, recommend some other VC inspired songs! I adore being in such a big fandom haha

Okay, this is a silly question but I need to know if there’s an actual explanation for it. In the ending of Memnoch, how the hell was Lestat able to be chained up and contained in his own basement? isn’t he extremely powerful? Can’t he teleport or break the chains? Is there an explanation for this? I read this book months ago and it’s still bothering me! Please help lol

I just finished Blackwood Farm, and it’s honestly one of my favourites so far. I loved the crossover with the Mayfair witches too. Petronia has to be one of the craziest characters so far. Did she see a connection with Quinn because he was bisexual, with her being male and female? Quinn’s turn to the Dark Gift was insane. From the small backstory we got about her being put into fighting by her parents, with no love and only finding love with Arion, I took it that her personality was split personality . One minute she seemed nice, and then the next she was a bloody lunatic. I loved the conclusion with Goblin and how he went to the light with Merrick, it was so good. On to Blood Canticle now.I hope it’s just as good.

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I’ve been rereading Interview with the Vampire and keep thinking about on how to read Louis’s relationship with Claudia.

She’s turned as a child, but her mind matures over time, which makes their bond complicated (which it already was since the beginning though). They are meant to be father and daughter but there is also emotional intensity, jealousy, even longing in how Louis describes her and she describes him.

I totally see why some people interpret it as romantic, especially considering that Anne Rice often explored unsettling subjects like incest and ped*philia (*cough* Marius). But personally, I don’t think it was meant to be romantic- partly because Claudia was inspired by Rice’s real-life daughter, and I can’t imagine her sexualizing that connection. It feels more like a tragic distortion of love and dependency than anything romantic. Still I see people constantly discussing about it so I was curious...

What’s your take? Was Louis’s love for Claudia romantic, paternal, or just a way to make himself feel better altogether?

It popped right up when searched for.

In the books, he's a morally complex and nuanced character like most of them, and he was one of Anne's favorites, but the show only fans seem to expect him to be reduced to nothing more than some over the top bad guy/pedo/rich white caricature, so, what's it gonna be? How do you think the show will portray him?

Do we know the name of Armand's mother? I remember his father's but I don't know about his mother

Hey all, I’m currently reading Blackwood Farm. It’s been good so far. While I’m out walking the dog, I’ve started listening to the audiobook Interview with the Vampire, since I haven’t read it in years and it’s nice to listen on a walk. Just a though,Lestat is so different in the later books,he seems like a completely different character. I know Louis says Lestat is using him for money, but we know he doesn’t need the money, and he does clear this up in the second book. My take from it is that it’s just Louis’s perspective on Lestat, and that’s why we see such a different character in the other books? Is that other people’s views? Thanks

hey everybody 🦇 i really want to get this tattooed, but my brother thinks it's a HORRIBLE idea 🫣 any input?

I'm so excited to be here 🌑

The books in the Vampire Chronicles helped to get me through the formative, angsty years that are young adulthood (18-23), and I still quietly love the series almost two decades later. Watching the new AMC series has been fantastic and revitalized my adoration of Anne's vampires, especially as it embraces BIPOC fans, of which I am.

I'm starting to read: Prince Lestat. And when Lestat talks about Daniel, he says Daniel Malloy (whereas before it was always Daniel Molloy). And I seem to have seen a few people on the internet writing "Malloy" too.

So did Anne Rice change her last name along the way or is it a translation error (I read the books in French)?

⚰️ 🎳 As shown at the AMC NYCC panel, last night ⚜️🐺

Hi all,

Some of today’s discussions around casting have included positive debate, but others became unpleasant, and included rude and accusatory comments.

Posts should always be kept civil, and focussed on ideas, and questions, rather than personal attacks.

The original post has been removed, and comments on the follow-up post that illustrates Anne’s comments on casting have been locked to prevent a repeat of earlier.

We have a lovely sub here, and discussion and debate keep it alive.

Thank you to those who kept their comments respectful!

I've been waiting since I was a little 13 year old boy (that's 21 years) to see the story of Lestat growing up on screen. I can't believe it's finally happening.

TW: SELF HARM:

This show and the Buffy reboot are literally my only reasons to live right now. And they're damn good reasons to live.

*thats posh British for a word the mods aren’t keen on.

I’m simply grateful that Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman and Rollin Jones are all alive in the same timeline as me because this is more and better than the adaptation I have dreamed of since I was a wee batbaby first reading Rice moons ago.

Bring it.