In...Rice's text, the vampire's "self" can only survive through the "dark trick," the consumption of blood that is predicated upon his or her talents for seduction. It is seduction that operates as the guarantor of subjectivity in Interview, and those elements of seduction give the text its "unrelentingly erotic nature" encompassing all options, homosexual, heterosexual, and pedophile.
sonser, "subversion, seduction, and the culture of consumption: the american gothic novel revisited in the work of toni morrison, joyce carol oates, and anne rice"


















