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  • Interview with the Vampire

  • Written by: Anne Rice
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (315 ratings)

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Interview with the Vampire

Written 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
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What the critics say

"[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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Loved it from the start.

Exceptionally well written. Performed to perfection. I had a hard time turning it off. Highly recommended.

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Tragic, Haunting, Spooky

If you have seen the film (as I have more times then I can count over the years, love dark stories and Vampires, this is an absolute read (or listen). This is the type of hobby that keeps my mind off life's many bullshit problems and away from toxic, evil people.

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The narrator is fantastic.

The story was good, the narration is perfect. I was hooked from the beginning with the clear speach and beautiful, consistent accents. A good book but I would certainly listen to any book narrated by this person in the future.

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awesome

great story from start to finish. I'm gonna get the vampire lestat next. narrator did a great job as well

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Incredible

This book and this entire series is phenomenal, Anne rice does an incredible job of bringing vampires to life, the best vampire series in my opinion. Simon Vance in an incredible narrator and I absolutely love how he brings Lestat to life.

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A modern classic

Interview may be the introductory novel for a series, but as a stand alone it is a beautiful book. Following the gradual destruction of the man known as Louis, we follow his life as a vampire and his enduring conflict with the nature of evil, his fading morality, and his struggle to understand others of his kind.
This novel helped spawn the entire modern vampire genre, and reading it will you will recognize it’s DNA in much of todays work and style.
Simon Vance shines as the narrator. He reads the entire story keeping the framing device in mind, and many times I loose myself in the tale and forget I’m listening to a novel. Easily one of his best performances.

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I LOVE YOU ANNE RICE!

absolutely marvelous! I can't tell which is better, the movie or the book? vampire stories are far off better written by the one and only anne rice.

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It holds up many years later

It is easy to tell why this book is a classic. This book is a solid novel with a good vocal performance.

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Best vampire novel, greatly preformed

Nobody made me relate so much other than Anne Rice’s vampires. The depth of her books are profoundly spiritual. Simon is a great performer for these deep works.

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Loved it

Loved it. The Story is fantastic and The narrator did a fantastic job and is really easy to listen to.

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