Planes far beyond those Stoker could have envisioned for his Countĭracula. Victorian appeal of Stoker's masterpiece, while taking the subject to

Unparalleled power, beauty, eroticism, and grace of Anne Rice'sĬontribution to the subject. Only with a second reading have I recognized the I Am Legend as the second greatest vampire novel, but I must retract I have described Richard Matheson's classic Which I feel to be horror's most important, primal, and soul-stirring, Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice completely rejuvenated the genre This review is from: Interview with the Vampire (Mass Market Paperback)With It is that rare work that blends aĬhildlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of

While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview Possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.

Reality of death, and the limits of human perception-in ways not Second, by entering the experience of an immortalĬharacter, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able toĮxplore profound philosophical concerns-the nature of evil, the Summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel.įirst and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale-with Louis'įirst-person confession to a skeptical boy-transformed the vampireįrom a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, andĪll-too-human figure. Of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. Innocents, give their 'dark gift' to a young girl, and seek out others Vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. At hisĮmotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful Named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. Tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire,Īnne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-centuryĪudience.

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