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  1. 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. Rice said in a 2008 interview that her vampires were a "metaphor for lost souls".

  2. Vampire Chronicles. by Anne Rice. ... Lestat’s story is published as a book—this time in an attempt to put right several of Louis’s errors. Lestat, like Rice’s vampire narrators to follow ...

    • 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.
  3. Interview with the Vampire is a vampire best-seller novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. The novel, the first to feature the enigmatic vampire anti-hero Lestat, was followed by several sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. A film version, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, was released in 1994, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst ...

  4. 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. Rice composed the novel shortly after the death of her young ...

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  5. The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt as narrator, while Interview is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac. Several events in the two books appear to ...

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  7. Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) was a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books. She was best known for her series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, and her prevailing thematic focus on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 ...

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