Vampire Chronicles

Geeking out over Anne Rice's preternatural Vampire Chronicles and Interview with the Vampire || He/Him

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A Vampire Chronicles fan guide for all you vampire geek freaks! - Part 1

Part 2 here

Here you'll find the reading order of the books, insight about the characters and elements inside this vampire universe, as well as info regarding adaptations and the author!

The reading order of the vampire chronicles

Key characters from the books

art by 'vamp4rebat' & 'papatacornioo'

Vocabulary used in the vampire chronicles

The abilities that come with the dark gift

PDF file + HD images of this guide: HERE.

A drive link with Anne Rice's books, including The Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches, extra materials, and more: HERE.

The Vampire Chronicles logo is by 'frans_hattingh'.

The Rue Royale font is by @squirrellypoo.

Thank you, @iloustat for fact checking everything!

[eosphoroz]

Not the Spongebob tieeee 😂 I'm dying

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Interview with the Vampire: 50th Anniversary Celebration

The contemporary gothic novel, Interview with the Vampire, was published on May 5, 1976. Fifty years later, and with thousands of fans around the world, Anne Rice’s legacy lives on; she transformed the vampire narrative and created a sanctuary within her words for the "weirdos." Today, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the book that started it all.

Watch the video we made last year for the 40th anniversary of The Vampire Lestat HERE.

@elisaintime

@thechthonicherbalist

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The Vampire Lestat: 40th Anniversary Celebration

And Happy Halloween! 🎃

On October 31, 1985, Anne Rice published the second book in her Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat. It instantly became a fan favorite and is often considered the best of Rice's vampire novels.

This book continued Rice's empathetic vampire revolution, but took it further by introducing the first Rock Star Vampire in literature: the diva Lestat de Lioncourt. However, the story goes beyond a stage performance; it explores Lestat's life, his pains, fears, loves, and immortal experiences, as well as the beautiful turmoil of the Savage Garden.

With his flamboyant charisma and philosophical remarks, Lestat became one of the most popular vampires in the genre. Now, 40 years later, fans from different generations around the world have come together to celebrate this milestone in a big way and pay tribute to the book, character, and author we all dearly love.

@thechthonicherbalist

@onyourheartstrings

@revolutionary-catboy

@angstosaur

@iloustat

@elsag

@vampire-scripture

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I'm doing a similar dynamic for the 50th anniversary of IWTV

So I'm leaving this here in case anyone would like to join!

The deadline is for April 26.

I still have 6 spots available!

Link to the instructions for participating ↓

[agathah]

Through blood one is reborn, and to blood one shall return.

[vampire-scripture]

Underrated pairing: Lestat + the little iPhone - book quote compilation

Information age. I guess I’m part of it, even if I can’t remember how to use my iPhone from week to week - Prince Lestat

I came back, flopped heavily on the sofa, and threw down my iPhone as if it were a gauntlet on the coffee table. “Take that!” – Prince Lestat

Yes, I have a safe refuge, I insisted. A good refuge. Be assured. Yes, I will use the iPhone magic to communicate. - Prince Lestat

Truth was, I lost the little iPhone. And went back to calling my attorneys in Paris and New York now as I had always done, with an old-fashioned landline phone. – Prince Lestat

I drew the phone out of my pocket. “Benji, put the little thing on speaker, will you?” I slapped it down on the table. – Prince Lestat

I took the glass cell phone from Thorne, and put it to my ear which always felt absurd and never would feel natural, but there was no getting out of it - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

The little phone suddenly vibrated in my pocket as if it were a tiny rodent come awake to plead for mercy. - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

I removed my iPhone from my pocket. I had come to hate it more than ever since Amel had figured how to use it. – Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

And I gave the little slab of a glass phone back to Gregory, who tucked it away in his ancient robes. - Blood communion

This is not an exhaustive list, if you have any others you find interesting and are willing to share, I’d be eternally grateful ^^.

[squirrellypoo]

"The program was created to identify children of outsized talent. Your sister proved to be the most talented of all." "Because of her memory?" "Yes, it was extraordinary. Unnatural. You could ask her how many bricks there were in a building she'd walked past two days before. Or the precise weather for any day of her life. She was always right. She could remember passages from any text. And then entire books verbatim after reading them only once. That's when we took her to Amsterdam, where her training really began. She was exactly what we'd been looking for."

The Talamasca: The Secret Order S1E6 "The 752" (2025) The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice (1988)

[rylandsgrace]

Not something. Someone. You made someone.

Frankenstein (2025) // Interview With the Vampire (2022 -)

[sizeofyoursoul]

Anne and Christopher Rice's (her son's) deranged Twitter interactions over the years

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When @ariaste points out a key omission, I have to add it (+a bonus one):

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40th Anniversary of The Vampire Lestat - October 31, 1985

"Lestat really sounds like he's sitting at the table, talking to you, because that's the way I feel about him when I'm writing--that he's right there, telling me the story, leaning over my shoulder, telling me to get it right, pointing out things I should change, breathing down my neck, doing everything but biting me! Which he wouldn't dare!" - Anne Rice (x)

[fofoqueirah]

antoine really is THE GUY when it comes to being the perfect pick to generate situational jealousy in all of lestat's main pairings because not only can you easily compare him to nicolas because he's also a musician, you can (and must!) use him on loustat fics due him being dollar tree louis in appearance but you can ALSO use him on lesmand fics because antoine is very explicitly said to have been turned at 18 while arriving at NOLA at 17 which means you can totally rope armand jealousy by saying lestat was only trying to find a pretty twink replacement for him like antoine really is THE middle of the venn diagram of many lestat pairings while also being a poor replacement for ALL THREE CHARACTERS meaning he is never going to be a real threat to your preferred pairing like!!! truly antoine is the BEST narrative device you can have for any and all lestat fics

[fofoqueirah]

he fits all the bills but somehow falls short on all of then!!!!!!!!! everybody is doing it better than him!!!!

[vampire-scripture]

TVC + Iconic Rat moments

This is a non exhaustive list. If you have any others and are willing to share, I'd be eternally grateful ^^

[squirrellypoo]

Scenes from the SDCC "The Vampire Lestat" trailer that were removed from the NYCC version...

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The Vampire Lestat: 40th Anniversary Celebration

And Happy Halloween! 🎃

On October 31, 1985, Anne Rice published the second book in her Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat. It instantly became a fan favorite and is often considered the best of Rice's vampire novels.

This book continued Rice's empathetic vampire revolution, but took it further by introducing the first Rock Star Vampire in literature: the diva Lestat de Lioncourt. However, the story goes beyond a stage performance; it explores Lestat's life, his pains, fears, loves, and immortal experiences, as well as the beautiful turmoil of the Savage Garden.

With his flamboyant charisma and philosophical remarks, Lestat became one of the most popular vampires in the genre. Now, 40 years later, fans from different generations around the world have come together to celebrate this milestone in a big way and pay tribute to the book, character, and author we all dearly love.

@thechthonicherbalist

@onyourheartstrings

@revolutionary-catboy

@angstosaur

@iloustat

@elsag

@vampire-scripture

[blueberry-matty]

in The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice - Armand is compared to Verrocchio's David (seen below).

Armand in Interview with the Vampire:

[eosphoroz]

Louis getting another iPad vampire to bother Lestat with is crazy 😂

[azamansource]

a look at assad's hairstyling in s2 x