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Interview with the Vampire

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). • The inspiration for the hit television series

The time is now.

We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .

He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures.

He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

©1976 Anne Rice (P)2011 Random House Audio
Fantasy Fantasy Essentials Fiction Horror Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Series Essentials Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Exciting Vampires Funny New Orleans

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Critic reviews

"[A] magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth - the education of the vampire.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Unrelentingly erotic...sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.” (Washington Post)

“If you surrender and go with her...you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.” (Boston Globe)

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I've never really been very intrigued by vampire stories but I absolutely loved this! I loved the rich beautiful descriptions and the narration was executed flawlessly by Simon Vance.

Loved it!

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The narrator is fabulous, though the story isn't one of my favorites. Louis is quite possibly one of the whiniest characters in literature. Looking forward to the next installments of The Vampire Chronicles, though.

Meh not my favorite.

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Such an exquisite experience! The story is already incredible, the audiobook even more. I've read the book many times and was looking for a new way to enjoy it, it was just perfect.

Listen even if you have already read the book!

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Thouget that it got a little tedious in the middle. Narrator was very good and overall I liked it. Doubt I will read rest of series.

Good not great

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Anne Rice write a wonderful story but the voice actor truly made this story come to life

voice actor was great could not be more happy.

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After reading the whole series it was great hearing the Audible version. I am going to continue listening.

Great to listen to.

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If you are a fan of Anne Rice, you will love this audiobook. If you are not, as I am usually not... you will still fall for the voluptuous, mystical, and grandiose language that Rice uses to weave a spell around you as you listen to the story of Louis, the reluctant vampire, Claudia, the beautiful child who is also a perfect killer, and of Lestat, the dramatic, reckless and rampant vampire who doesn't understand and is impatient with Louis and his precious pain. Simon Vance does his usual masterful job. He is the reason I took a chance on this book. As I said.. I'm not the usual Anne Rice fan... Vance's narration made me one.

An Opulent, Gothic Read

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Overall, held my attention but the ending leaves the reader with a let down and could have been more spectacular.

Entertaining

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performance was so captivating! would recommend. Anne rice's storytelling is amazing and starting at the beginning has me hooked.

excellent! performance was captivating.

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way better then the movie listening to this book made me even more of a fan

amazing

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