[spoilers for the queen of the damned (qotd) below; everything discussed is about the books.]
so essentially the first i thought of this was becsuse of the character maharet. a quick overview of her: she's a vampire, very old (5000-6000 or so if i remember rightly?), a redhead, used to be a witch (could see spirits and talk to them, cause rain etc), looking for a long lost sister while chronicling the history of all the many (many, many) people descended from her. she goes to them as a distant aunt if anything. she takes charge of a particular younger descendant of hers (jesse reeves) in the book. she gathers several vampires of various ages and from various places to help defeat the mother of all vampires, akasha (who has world-devastating motives not hugely relevant to this particular point), and do it in a way where all the rest of the vampires also don't die, because their lives are all tied to akasha's.
essentially a Lot of this is visible in ways througout lungbarrow as well. (it may even have sounded very familiar!) innocet first: redhead + "mystical" combination (i have heard this is a Thing in platt's gallifrey? can't speak for it myself since i haven't read any of his other dw books yet but for what it's worth i'll put it here), old, keeper of family history and customs (housekeeper!!), gathers many together to preserve her people while defeating the person (ish but like. houses so) who gave them life. she even has the long lost relative who ends up crucial to the narrative and to the rebirth of sorts that "heals" lungbarrow. (maharet's sister in qotd, mekare, takes over the spirit of vampirism/"sacred core" into herself at the end. i think there's something there in this.)
secondly, both books share several interesting points of focus: history (specifically origins), family, connections between these, the tension between the old and the new, close relationships that are not necessarily familial by blood. in both there's a fair deal of sitting around and talking and telling stories. dreams and memories are significant narrative and thematic tools. staying together after your world ends is a particular poignant parallel.
the mood and genre stuff is also very similar in both of them?? like, for a science fiction book lungbarrow is very heavy on gothic horror, which is pretty squarely qotd's genre. (i mean. the vampire chronicles. so.) the past and the present are always blending, ghosts (as past selves!!) are an important presence, there's a lot of unsettlement and unhealthy/too-close relationships.....at the same time the more modern stuff in qotd (it takes place in the 80s and is very much clear about it, to say the least) sort of speaks to the science fiction type of stuff in lungbarrow.
i'm not saying that they're the same book or anything, nor do i think that this element of intertextuality could come from multiple vampire chronicles books (i mean, the intertextuality itself is more implied & guess-work-y than anything else), but there are interesting parallels there, and if it were to come to light that platt had been inspired by this book for lungbarrow (and i believe qotd also predates not just the book but also the unpublished episode version of lungbarrow? i'd have to verify), then i would not be in the least surprised.
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