num_pages: 368
description: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIREIs more than a mere ‘horror tale’. It is the account of a mangifted with immortality who has lived 200 years as a vampire. He recounts how he departed from human existence and became a vampire, but, reluctant to take human life, he sustained himself on the blood of animals.As years pass, however, he embraces the habits of the vampire – the detachment, the hardened will, the sensual pleasure. He embarks on a perilous journey across Euroe to search for others like himself, desperate to discover the ways of survival, more desperate to find out why he has become what he is.At last he comes into intimacy with the whole decadent society of vampires – an intimacy which becomes terror as he is compelled to confront what he fears most.Lovecraft once said: ‘The one test of the really weird is simply this – whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers.’Miss Rice’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE must stand alongside Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. It is a work of literature told in the horror genre. Catholic Herald 
language: English
title: Interview with the Vampire
titlecomplete: Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
characters: Daniel Molloy, Claudia, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Vampires, Horror, Paranormal, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy
ratings_count: 569915
places: Paris, New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana
series: The Vampire Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Futura Publications