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The Vampire Chronicles is a series of gothic vampire novels and a media franchise, created by American writer Anne Rice, that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century.
A complete, visual genealogical record of all vampire characters found in Anne Rice's series: The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Includes dates of vampiric embrace and, if applicable, dates of eternal death.
CharacterPortrayals In Media ...(interview With The Vampire (1994 Film))Portrayals In Media ...(queen Of The Damned (2002 Film))Portrayals In Media ...(lestat (2006 Musical))Does not appearDoes not appear- Anne Rice wrote Interview With the Vampire to cope with grief. In August 1972, the author and her husband lost their 5-year-old daughter, Michele, to a rare form of leukemia.
- Interview With the Vampire was written in about five weeks. Rice first explored the idea of a reporter interviewing a vampire with a short story called “Interview with the Vampire,” which she revised several times.
- Interview With the Vampire was heavily influenced by the 1936 Universal horror film Dracula's Daughter ... Rice saw Dracula's Daughter when she was a kid and was captivated by its portrayal of the title character as a tormented artist who longed to be human.
- But Anne Rice was not a fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In fact, she hadn’t even read Stoker’s seminal vampire novel when she wrote Interview With the Vampire.
Biography. Early life. Rice was born and spent most of her early life in New Orleans, Louisiana, which forms the background against which most of her stories take place. She was the second daughter in a Catholic Irish-American family; Rice's sister, the late Alice Borchardt, also became a noted genre author.
Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976. It was her debut novel. Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.
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