FORGOTTEN VAMPIRE CHRONICLES CANON: Interview with the Vampire  {Part 3, p. 139-173}    Â
This one is kind of a boring one since most of these chapters are monologues of Louisâ internal turmoil.Â
Louisâ brother was blond (p.143)
Louis doesnât remember much of anything from living in France or from his voyage to America (p.146)
Antoine visits Louis and Claudia before they leave for Europe. Itâs obvious Lestat had turned him into a vampire at this point and was beginning his transformation: Antoine had bite marks on his neck, his skin is sick-looking and pale, heâs hyperaware of his surroundings during their talk, and he is desperate to see and hear from Lestat. (p.148-149)
Louis quotes Samuel Coleridgeâs âThe Rime of the Ancient Marinerâ when contemplating Claudiaâs nature. This is perhaps Coleridgeâs most well known and analyzed work for its length and depiction of a female death. It was published in 1798 (p.151)
Louis seduces a black woman slave and presumably drinks from her/kills her (Mr. Slaveownerâs fetishy feelings toward black women continues. wow :/ ) (p.152)
Claudia had a running scam by pretending to be a child too far from home and lure adults towards her and Louis' place. Louis would play along grateful for his âlost daughterâ to be returned (p.153)
In the movie, it is just Lestat who comes back to the house after rising from the swamp, but in the book Antoine comes with him after being fully turned. Lestat is much more aggressive than creepy, trying to break open a door to get to them. Louis throwing the lamp to set Lestat on fire does happen though. Antoine attacks Claudia but he doesnât do much of anything (p.154-155)
Louis refers to Claudia, Lestat, and him as âour select familyâ (p.160)
Claudia prefers seeing lots of light when she wakes up, which was a habit of Lestatâs (p.161)
Claudia played solitaire (p.162)
Claudia read accounts of vampires from east European priests and scholars to gain her knowledge of lore. She refused to look into romantic writings and dark poetics like Edgar Allen Poe (p.164)
Louisâ sister had visited his âgraveâ which is set next to his brotherâs. Louis had set aside money for his âgodchildâ named Louis, which in actuality was himself- but his sister didnât catch on. She never got over his death (p.166)
The search for other vampires began in Varna towards the rural country side of the Carpathian Mountains. Varna is a Bulgarian sea port city off the Black Sea. The Transylvania Plateau is a part of the Carpathian Mountains as Transylvania runs nearby in central Romania (p.167) (some of you might need to fact check me on my geography)
Claudia learned the value of money from Louis, but loved spending it on luxuries like Lestat (p.167)
Louis knows how to speak German (p.168)
Louis befriends a painter named Morgan whose wife Emily is murdered by a local vampire. This is how Louis learns the practices the villagers take in decapitating the death who they presume to be vampires (p.173)
FORGOTTEN VAMPIRE CHRONICLES CANON: Interview with the Vampire  {Part 2, p. 102-138}
Claudia did not sleep in her coffin at first after Louis bought it - p.102
Poverty interested Claudia - p.103
âThe Infant Deathâ is Lestatâs nickname for Claudia, along with âSister Deathâ and âSweet Deathâ - p.103
Lestat doesnât like being drunk because of the dizziness - p.106
But he sure is quite a happy, giggly drunk
Claudiaâs questioning of her marker was brought on by the topic of the holiday All Saintâs Day, referred to as the Feast of All Saints in the novel - p.106-7
The Feast of All Saints is also the title of another Anne Rice novel, which later became a television mini-series with the same name in 2001.
Lestat had a âkeen fascination, a malignant pleasureâ upon Claudia questioning her existence - p.107
Louis has a photo of his sister in his trunk - p.107
Lestat adored being known as a local cryptid called the âHyades Road Ghostâ as he murdered in public to create social suspicion - p.109
Ricean vampires have heart-beats, even when they havenât fed - p.113
Bolding this one since Iâve seen it debated before
Claudia, in a thought, alludes to the fact Ricean vampires improve and gain their supernatural abilities, and become stronger, by drinking from their makers and other vampires. We see this mentioned and put into effect in later novels - p.123
Daniel kept liquor on him in his jacket pocket - p.125
Daniel didnât typically drink in front of interviewees. This is inferred - p.125
Dumbass offered Louis a drink from it lol
Louis and Claudia met Antoine at a recital before Lestat turned him - p.126
Lestat often brought home sheets of Antoineâs music to play on their piano, which Louis describes as âdisturbingâ - p.126
âWanting to see a good play, the regular opera, the ballet. {Lestat} always wanted me alongâ - p.126
Louis and Lestat saw Macbeth about 15 times, going to every performance for Lestatâs sake - p.126
âLestat would stride home afterwards, repeating the lines to me and even shouting out to passers-byâŚâ - p.126
Lestat found that Louis expressing, with only a few words, a joy in having his company after a night of going out would ruin his joyful mood and would âbanish all such affairs for monthsâ - p.127
Louis instinctively knew the night Claudia would attempt to murder Lestat - p.127
Claudia was drawn to chrysanthemums, which she understood as symbolizing death - p.127. She later puts stems of chrysanthemum on Lestatâs sheet-wrapped body when they dispose of him in the swamp - p.136
Ironically, Louis says Lestat plays music without any feeling and that he instead plays with his vampiric senses, not having the music come from inside him - p.128
Babette, the woman Louis and Lestat visit at the beginning if the novel, dies young from insanity after their visit - p.129
Over time, Louisâ attachment for his sister disappeared - p.129
Unlike in the film, the two boys Claudia used in her plot were alive, but poisoned with absinthe and laudanum. Lestat invited Claudia to share the boys with him. Claudia also bit Lestat as he was dying, an attempt to retrieve some of his power (as mentioned earlier on p.123) - p.134
Louis kept trying to go near Lestat to help him but Claudia prevented this - p.134
Louis had the urge to drown himself when he put Lestat in the swamp - p.137
Louis was furious with Claudia after the attempted murder and did not wish to speak with her. He changed his mind when she began to cry--something Louis never saw her do in all their years together - p.138
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