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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 doesn’t do much of anything (p.154-155)

Louis refers to Claudia, Lestat, and him as “our select family” (p.160)

Claudia prefers seeing lots of light when she wakes up, which was a habit of Lestat’s (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)

Louis’ sister had visited his “grave” which is set next to his brother’s. Louis had set aside money for his “godchild” named Louis, which in actuality was himself- but his sister didn’t 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)

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 didn’t 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 Antoine’s music to play on their piano, which Louis describes as “disturbing” - p.126

“Wanting to see a good play, the regular opera, the ballet. {Lestat} always wanted me along” - p.126

Louis and Lestat saw Macbeth about 15 times, going to every performance for Lestat’s sake - p.126

“Lestat would stride home afterwards, repeating the lines to me and even shouting out to passers-by…” - 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 “banish all such affairs for months” - 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 Lestat’s 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, Louis’ 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