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40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). The time is now. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . . He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . . We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . . We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . . We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . . In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.
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"Anne is the BEST of the "Vampire Writers". She creates rich Characters in her novels with an incredible amount of detail.One of my Favorite types of writing styles is vividly detailed worlds that put you directly into the work as if you are living vicariously through the characters.She paints masterpieces with fine attention to detail and I LOVE the New Orleans setting.Forget about the movie, which was marginal at BEST (Tom Cruise for Lestat ?).READ the Book and you`ll forget the MOVIE even exists."
— Gerry (4 out of 5 stars)
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“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller…Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth–the education of the vampire.”
— Chicago Tribune -
“If you surrender and go with her…you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”
— Boston Globe -
“Unrelentingly erotic…sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.”
— Washington Post -
“While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire Chronicles novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review -
“A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving.”
— Hartford Courant
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Nominated for the 1987 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
Interview with the Vampire Listener Reviews
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" Anne Rice .. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant ... "
— Shagou, 1/20/2014 -
" Can't get into this book. It's written well but it's not my thing. "
— Dhaverma, 1/16/2014 -
" First of a phenomenal series of vampire books. I tried reading it in 1983, but when I came back to it in 1990, I couldn't put it down. "
— Kim, 1/15/2014 -
" Anne Rice is the one who put paranormal on the map, and this the book that gave vampires. "
— Gary, 1/2/2014 -
" Anne Rice is another one of my favorite authors, I enjoy her writing style! "
— Miranda, 12/22/2013 -
" I read this book when I was in elementary school and I remember loving it. The movie is one that I still refer to as one of my favorites. But picking it up after all these years left me surprised. I didn't really enjoy it this time around. I found reading it to be a chore and while it's still better than Twilight (which I regrettably forced myself to read so I could "know my enemy") I still found it lacking. When it comes to vampire books, I still have yet to find any that I love. I found Louis to be whiny most of the time. At one point he was complaining so much that I put the book down for two days. I also found the book to be entirely too long. When it was lengthy for the sake of being descriptive of the scenery, I was all for it. But Louis' character would droll on endlessly about his sadness or confusion or his worries about Claudia and Lestat. On the plus side, the storyline was still as interesting as I remembered it. My biggest problem with this was with Louis as a character. It's really hard to get through a book where you can't stand the main character, but he wasn't even someone I loved to hate. I actually felt that way about Lestat and wished the book was written from his perspective. Because of this, I'm willing to read the next book in The Vampire Chronicles series. "
— Tianna, 12/21/2013 -
" First time reading Anne Rice. Pretty amazing book all in all. I will read more over time. "
— Chris, 12/17/2013 -
" Loved it! One of the best vampire books I've ever read! "
— Kodou, 11/24/2013 -
" so good. wish more vampire books were like this "
— Lacey, 11/18/2013 -
" I loved this book! It was very well written,and I didn't want it to end "
— Dana, 10/29/2013 -
" Enjoyed it. Very well written. "
— Sandra, 9/28/2013 -
" A very scary read, but just as exciting and thrilling! "
— L., 5/4/2013 -
" Buku punya adek..pernah baca tapi gak selesai..gara-gara dipinjem sama temennya..trus sampai skrng gak dibalikin tuh bukunya.. :"( "
— Michiyo, 3/21/2013 -
" A wonderful sexy homoerotic fantasy read for adults. "
— Lorese, 3/7/2013 -
" I thought it was pretty good. I read it because everyone was telling me it was great. I think it was a little over hyped up though. It tends to get really long in some places. "
— Amanda, 2/26/2013 -
" my favorite vampire book :) "
— Georgia, 1/24/2013 -
" I read this in Spanish, but overall a great use of macabre, probably the best vampire series ever written. A bit too long however, there could have been some more concision. "
— Patrick, 1/22/2013 -
" One of the first books besides Dracula that opened my mind up to the paranormal. "
— Sylvia, 1/28/2012 -
" This book drags so badly that it took me six months to read it. "
— Lostfate13, 8/1/2011 -
" Awesome vampire story! One of my first and favorite since. "
— Paul, 7/29/2011 -
" One of the only books I've re-read a few times. Love it. "
— Amanda, 7/11/2011 -
" Was really into her vampires and witches chronicles once upon a time... "
— Chi, 6/29/2011 -
" I read this book as well as the rest of the series for the first time in high school and I remember really loving it. Recently re-read it and found I wasn't as enthralled. I think it's still worth a read - maybe you're high school me.... "
— Menolly, 6/27/2011 -
" Didn't not like, also, some of it verges on child porn. "
— Elizabeth, 6/27/2011 -
" So far I've grown to like this Louie character already. Plus with my facination with Vampires there's no doubt I'll grow to feel I am apart of the book itself. Also after watching the movie I'm hoping the book is better. "
— Emily, 6/26/2011 -
" It was better than the movie, but, honestly, that's not saying much. An entertaining read if you're just looking for entertainment, but if you want something with substance, I'd probably pass on this one. "
— Allison, 6/25/2011 -
" I read several Anne Rice, searching for quality. My main memory is she was obsessed by the death of her daughter, and tried to bring her back to life in her fiction. More sad and creepy than engaging. "
— BibbleBabble, 6/25/2011 -
" Who can resist the original Anne Rice vamp book? It's been a while since I've read it (middle school, believe it or not) but I can still remember being enthralled with her story. Definitely a book that belongs in everyone's collection, even if you don't read the whole series. "
— Kate, 6/22/2011 -
" So far? Much better than Twilight... "
— Niav, 6/21/2011 -
" I read this book many years ago and I loved it so I'm going to give it four stars, but I'd like to read it again as an adult and review it once more. "
— Laurie, 6/18/2011 -
" ok. I was on this whole Vampier/bandwagon the rest of the world was on, and THIS Vamp series was a little too 'dark' for me. esp when I got to the 2nd book in THIS seried :/ "
— Sunni, 6/17/2011
About Anne Rice
Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English and creative writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in political science. She is the author of over thirty books, including tales of the Mayfair Witches. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was published in 1976 and has gone on to become part of one of the bestselling series of all time. She continued her saga of the Vampire Lestat in a series of books, collectively known as the Vampire Chronicles, which have had both great mainstream and cult followings. She lives in Palm Desert, California.
About F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in the 1984 film Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in such major films as All the President’s Men and Scarface and the award-winning television series Homeland. He has also acted on Broad and Off-Broadway and won numerous awards for his work in theater, film, television, and audio recordings. He has also received lifetime achievement awards and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.