Let's Get Ready For Interview With The Vampire!

About this episode

The episode celebrates the impact of Anne Rice's 'Interview With The Vampire' ahead of the AMC premiere of its new season.

In 1976, Anne Rice forever changed the vampire with the publication of Interview With The Vampire. Injected with romanticism, passion, sexuality, queer relationships and religious existentialism, this novel kicked off a franchise that is still going today. And of course, it introduced one of modern fiction's most impactful characters, the Vampire Lestat. Let's get ready for tonight's premeire of AMC's newest season of Interview with the Vampire by celebrating the book that started it all. You can find the full review, and much much more, over on Patreon. Please write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com

People in this episode

Host: Constant Reader

Topics covered

• vampires
• literature
• romanticism
• queer relationships
• religious existentialism
• television adaptation

Keywords

• Anne Rice
• Interview With The Vampire
• Vampire Lestat
• AMC
• romanticism
• queer relationships
• literature
• vampires

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AMC, Patreon

Books & works: Interview With The Vampire

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