So, one of the great pleasures of TVC verse, for me, is analyzing each book chronologically. And what I mean by that is there's this temptation to want to look at the series as a whole and say "oh! this is cool because this is a precursor to this moment 5 books from now". But I think it's important to keep in mind that Anne wasn't some master planner. She was very much someone who let herself indulge in whatever was engaging to her at the time, and you can see this in the way that her canon was malleable and contradictory at times.
One of my favorite reminders of this is right at the beginning of interview
Yes, Anne would go on to write these incredibly baroque, leather-clad-wearing characters. But it's important to remember that when it was just her in her apartment in San Fransisco waiting for Stan to get back from work, the image she was drawing on, the trope she was interested in exploring, was the classic movie vampire. This was the vision of Louis she was initially playing with :
This is so interesting to keep in perspective because it explains a lot of the framework laid down in the interview. It explains the origins of so much of the vampire lore—even when Anne explicitly rebels against parts of it—like her being bothered by the lack of a reflection because it implies the soul is in hell, and she didn't want that—it's a rebellion against this specific incarnation of the vampire image.
