When was interview with a vampire written

The publishing process is a notoriously lengthy one that involves several stages of editing, including substantive edits that address issues such as plot, character, and structure, as well as copy edits, which pertain to things like grammar and sentence structure.

Rice was fine with the upper-level edits she received on Interview With the Vampire , including the aforementioned rewrite. In an oft-repeated bit of Interview With the Vampire lore, Rice supposedly named the Dutch actor as the inspiration for Lestat, who played a supporting role in Interview With the Vampire but has since become the star of the ongoing Vampire Chronicles series.

BY April Snellings. Anne Rice wrote Interview With the Vampire to cope with grief. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Finding libraries that hold this item Read more You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

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Please create a new list with a new name; move some items to a new or existing list; or delete some items. Your request to send this item has been completed. The hairs on its chin were grey so I guess he was getting old. I think mice only live for about two years so this one was probably at least two summers old.

Anyhow I digress, this gets nasty now. The video goes into a time lapse. The lab assistant was taking baby mice from the mother and feeding them to the old mouse. The video is filmed over a couple of weeks and condensed to a few minutes on the time lapse. Now, the old mouse is getting younger! The old mouse, eating the pure clean flesh of new born mice, gets younger.

His greying chin hair is now a lovely golden brown and he is flitting about his environment like a teenager. I don't know whether this video is real or fake. Was the mouse swapped with a younger one? Who knows? If it is fake it is quite So I ask again, is vampirism real? If it is real then the Race of the Vampire would be far older than humanity.

That means they would Predate humanity. So explains why Vampires predate, as in hunt, feed off, suck the blood of humans.

So does Predate mean what is says, before? Or, hunt, stalk, eat? Or are the two meanings the same? Was the Tiger here before the deer? Was the wolf here before the sheep? As humans, with our intellect, we as a race don't really have a predator these days. We create things to protect us. So are we the top of the food chain? Do we, as in all nature, have a predator?

For every right there is a left and every up there is a down. Are we the most intelligent beings on this planet?

Are there many races? Do they hide in the shadows? What is folklore compared to mainstream? Why is Romania called Rome Mania? Legend of Dracuul. Vlad the Impaler. A madman! Was ancient Romania, Visigoths? Named so because it became a Roman outpost?

Rome occupied Egypt. Romany, curses and casting spells. The mystics of Egypt did too. I am forever playing Devils Advocate, too many questions and not enough answers. Let's take the Alfa Romeo car manufacturer. I recently learned it is owned by the Vatican. We all know that the Vatican is a state within a state. Like the city of London, where all the oligarchy live. Or the District Of Colombia.

So, the Vatican probably owns the Alfa Romeo car company, secretly it would appear. The esoteric world communicate via logos. Sigils, symbols, icons etc. A picture spells a thousand words Words are only for the masses. They are swords. Now let's look at the Alfa Romeo badge. I am not going to copy and paste one in for fear of copy right strike.

One will have to look for themselves however, I can describe it. Here goes: A circle within a circle. The outer circle, enveloping around, spells the words Alfa Romeo. To the left of the inner circle is the Red Cross of St. To the right is a dragon. On the dragon's head is a Crown. A forked tongue protruding from the dragons mouth. How absurd. Let's break this down. A circle within a circle. A wheel within a wheel. The outer circle contains the word "Alfa" top, supreme, dominance.

Also the word Rome. It envelopes the inner circle. So Rome is top dog. To left of the inner circle is the St. George Flag. A red cross. Did St. George not slay the dragon? To the right of the flag is a Dragon.

On top of its head is a Crown. What appears to be a forked tongue protruding from its maw. If one turns the logo degrees one can clearly see it is not a tongue at all So the Dragon has a Crown on its head and a human hanging out of its mouth. It's only a company logo right? So according to this badge. Rome is top dog and there would be no Royalty if not for Holy Roman Empire. The Royals are actually dragons. And they eat humans, really? David Icke must be cringing. It is so absurd, it is crazy.

What is true is that some time ago Prince Charles visited Romania and whilst walking around some Gothic temples with the Romanian leader he turned and said. Or words to that effect.

I remember watching it on a mainstream news channel. I think he is. Does the Welsh flag have a Red Dragon on it? I believe it does. He thinks he is. Interesting to know that Windsor is not the real name of the British Royals. The Vatican. Royal Bloodlines. The elites believe it. Incidentally the Visigoths had a distinctive red shield and a Criss Sword. I read some where that the name Rothschild means Red Shield.

I hope I am not hung drawn and quartered. Penny Dreadfuls were small comic book magazines from the Victorian era. Basically like fantasy and folklore. In the TV show the main plot was vampirism. In the show the protagonists find an Alpha Vampire, an original. The creature has an autopsy. The skin is scaly and covered in hieroglyphs. Egyptian hieroglyphs. Its fangs are akin to a serpent. I thought it was a very interesting concept.

Dorian Grey also featured heavily in the show, as did Spring-Heeled Jack. The show was subsequently scrapped. I wonder why? I wonder a lot. When an alpha bites it infects. A made vampire in folklore is actually infected, not born a vampire, so when it rises from the dead it could almost be considered a Zombie.

It is rumoured that archeologists have unearthed many plague pits across Europe and UK and in those mass graves the corpses were beheaded and had punctures to the chest area. I once read an article about this very subject. The piece outlined that indeed during the middle ages and before this was quite frequently practiced. Was it merely superstition?

I certainty never learned this at school, it was not in the curriculum. I will research this subject more. View all 14 comments. Feb 23, Madeline rated it it was ok Shelves: the-list , the-movie-is-better , no-judgements. You made me read a goddamn vampire book. Not only that, you made me read a vampire book with a cover made entirely of shiny ostentatious material that shouted to everyone in the library as I checked this out, "Look everyone!

Madeline is reading a book about vampires! Like, the ancient Egyptians would look at this cover and say, "That's a bit much.

Okay, so the book itself isn't bad , really - hence my rating of two stars, which Goodreads classifies as "it was ok. Maybe I would have been more thrilled by the story if I hadn't seen the movie - even though there's stuff in the book that didn't make it into the movie, none of it is particularly thrilling. At least the movie made the wise decision to keep the blatant, in-your-face-but-unacknowledged homoeroticism seriously, this book is, and I mean this in the most literal way possible, the gayest thing I've ever read but changed the fact that a Claudia is only five years old in the book and b she and Louis do everything except actually have sex with each other.

They're always kissing and caressing each other and Louis is calling her his lover and his paramour and it is so fucking creepy. But, lest we forget, vampire books are supposed to be creepy. In these post- Twilight days, it's easy to forget that there was once a time where vampires fucked and killed and were a general amoral all-around good time, and if one of them chose to be all broody and sad about being a vampire he was the weird one that no one else wanted to hang out with.

God, I miss those days - to the point where I considered giving this an extra star, just because I was so grateful to read a story about vampires who do actual vampire stuff and it's sexy and scary instead of boring and schmoopy.

Also good was how in-depth Rice goes into the psychology of vampires, and I loved her explanation for why they haven't overrun the planet: most vampires are miserable, and end up killing themselves. Explains Armand, who I will continue to picture as Antonio Banderas and you can't stop me: "How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?

They have the most dismal notions of immortality to begin with. For in becoming immortal they want all the forms of their life to be fixed as they are and incorruptible When, in fact, all things change except the vampire himself; everything except the vampire is subject to constant corruption and distortion. Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value.

One evening a vampire rises and realizes what he has feared perhaps for decades, that he simply wants no more of life at any cost. But as for the rest, I'll just watch the movie, thanks. Or not, because if we're going to be honest I don't even like the movie that much. Sorry, Ms. Rice, but if my vampires must be broody, I at least want them to be funny and charming too. View all 28 comments. I thoroughly enjoyed this from beginning to end. This was pure gothic-vampire horror but presented in a way the characters all had human emotions and interpersonal problems.

I really liked the descriptive imagery used throughout the entire story: from dark s Louisiana to shadowy Old Country Europe. These were real vampires that killed people; whether to feed or the thrill of the hunt. I liked the idea that L I thoroughly enjoyed this from beginning to end. I liked the idea that Louis was literally giving an interview the entire time to a reporter only named 'the boy'.

Louis was a well-crafted character who was deep and reflective. He clashed with Lestat, who was the narcissistic and ruthless vampire who killed mercilessly. Then there was the child Claudia who transformed into an adult. All three had interesting dynamic that reflected real human emotions: anger, contempt, etc. Eventually the story caught up to the present and a lot happened in between I don't want to spoil it. Overall I really liked this.

The story was horror and gothic at its finest. I like the movie and think they are both good in their own way. I would recommend this to anyone who liked gothic horror or vampire fiction. View all 15 comments. Since I've watched the movie based on this book several years ago starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt , I decided to end October by reading one of the most chilling vampire tales ever written sorry, Bram!

I enjoyed: 1. Although eyebrow-raising at times, I really got Since I've watched the movie based on this book several years ago starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt , I decided to end October by reading one of the most chilling vampire tales ever written sorry, Bram!

Although eyebrow-raising at times, I really got the sense of Louis's struggles with his sense of evil, his immortality, and essentially, his loss of humanity, showing me that he has a conscience!

What niggled at me: 1. Overall, Louis's story that being a vampire isn't all that it's cracked up to be, was a deliciously creepy read, but, at this time, I don't think I will be reading any of the sequels of Anne Rice 's The Vampire Chronicles.

View all 53 comments. Debbie Margot wrote: "Very nice review. I read this book a long time ago and enjoyed it very much. I had a friend who bought it at an airport having not foun Margot wrote: "Very nice review. I had a friend who bought it at an airport having not found anything else of interest for a long flight. She was very in I wonder if it's true? Thanks for sharing, Margot! Debbie Julie wrote: "Very mixed bag for me, as well. The movie made me do it! Feb 10, Ren rated it liked it.

I first read this book in High School and my sad gothic self immediately fell in love with its beautiful, damaged characters. For years this book haunted me. The rest of the Vampires books were pulpy fun but this book really had something. She captured something here and her almost baroque prose really carries the story. Louis is turned into a vampire and continues his search for the answers: who he is, wh I first read this book in High School and my sad gothic self immediately fell in love with its beautiful, damaged characters.

Louis is turned into a vampire and continues his search for the answers: who he is, why he is, what his place is. He wars with lovers, family and friends in his search to define his own life only to discover that nothing he does matters and that everyone is just as lost as he is, an ultimately there are no answers but the ones we make ourselves. May 02, Vessey rated it it was amazing Recommended to Vessey by: The movie. Shelves: 5-stars , fantasy , horror , dark , owned , erotica , romance , vampires.

I admit that I couldn't get through the rest of "The Vampire Chronicles", but this one stays a favourite. Why do you like it so, oh, vampire crazy Vessey?

Really, I do like vampires. Even though I'm not a "Twilight" fan. I even have my own set of teeth. A real goth girl inhabits my body and she hungers for dark adventures. I'm a sinister person, I know. When gold and gems adorn the plough To peaceful arts shall Envy bow.

A riddle or the cricket's cry Is to doubt a fit reply. The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out. To be in a passion you good may do, But no good if a passion is in you. The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed, build that nation's fate.

The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet. The winner's shout, the loser's curse, Dance before dead England's hearse. Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye Which was born in a night to perish in a night, When the soul slept in beams of light. God appears, and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day. Interview With The Vampire Books: Audiobook:. Join the Anne Rice Mailing List. Type your e-mail address and click "JOIN". All Rights Reserved.

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