Vampire Chronicles

Not the Spongebob tieeee 😂 I'm dying

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.

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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 ↓

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

"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."

Not something. Someone. You made someone.

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

Armand in Interview with the Vampire: