BookSeries· 1976· Horror

The Vampire Chronicles

by Anne Rice

The Vampire Chronicles: 2 recorded works trace back to it.

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Interview with the Vampire

Film · 1994

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Anne Rice wrote the screenplay herself, from the first novel of her own sequence. She objected publicly to the casting of Lestat and then reversed herself in a paid advertisement after seeing the film, which is an unusually well documented case of an author's involvement.

Queen of the Damned

Film · 2002

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Adapted from the third Vampire Chronicles novel with material from the second compressed into it, which is why Anne Rice disowned it publicly and at length. Recorded here because the map should show what was made from a source, not only what the author approved of.

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The Vampire Chronicles

This is a series.

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are. 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 daughter Michele, who served as an inspiration for the child-vampire character Claudia.

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