Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire is one of the best horror books I've ever read.

It's amazing.

The vampire Lestat is great.

I don't think I read other ones.

I think that's the only one.

Anne Rice then came along and Nothing happened in between Bela Lugosi and Anne Rice.

I didn't think the books were very good, but it's just not my bag.

Oh yeah. No, I read the first one and it's just not my thing.

Anne Rice then came along and Nothing happened in between Bela Lugosi and Anne Rice. But Anne Rice definitely brought things more into the forefront as far as this range of emotions and these really complex characters.

I didn't think the books were very good, but it's just not my bag.

No, I read the first one and it's just not my thing.

we discuss all things Interview with the Vampire with NPR's Barry Hardiman.

We are now in spooky season. And on this week's episode of Books We've Loved, we discuss all things Interview with the Vampire with NPR's Barry Hardiman.

I've jerked it to Anne Rice novels. That was my vampire porn.

I've jerked it to Anne Rice novels. That was my vampire porn.

While Rice wrote over 30 novels throughout her career, she is best known for her novel, Interview with a Vampire, famously adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in 1994.

When I become a vampire or a witch or when I write about that subject, I'm able to write about good and evil and guilt and pain and death and life in a way that I can't when trying to write realistically.

And in particular, I connected to the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice.

Vampires are magical creatures who are above the rest of the world. They were free. They were free to kill people. They were free to fuck people. They were free to do whatever. There was male and female relationships. There was female-female relationships. There was male-male relationships.

There was poly relationships. There were all these things and all these different ways to love that I had never even thought of, that I never thought were possible. And they didn't feel guilty about it. And they only found acceptance.

And that's really what I connected with in the books was that there was this sense of freedom and acceptance in the monstrous. I felt that I was monstrous. I had been told my whole life that I was horrible, that I was ugly, that I was horrible. I was unlovable.

Then in these books, they're monstrous, but they're loved and they're magical and they don't care what God has to say about them. They took the darkness and they made it magical.

David Letterman is brit is boasting about the movie interview with a vampire he would say interview with the vampire it never was interview with a vampire

But no he said a vampire and there's so many memes that show right but what's your luke i am your father point that it has somehow changed

This is sort of a this is some Anne Rice level ritualistic behavior, I would say.