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  • Written by: Anne Rice
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (305 ratings)

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Interview with the Vampire

Written by: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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Publisher's Summary

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

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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Vampire Existentialism

Well written. Well read. But a lot of description about feelings and impressions and angst and doubts and vampire existentialist naval-gazing. Found myself regularly zoning out for small stretches and realizing it didn't impact my following the plot. Lot of words for not a lot of events. Interactions between characters became tiresome after a while. But I will still concede that the book was well done overall.

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  • 2018-09-13

Great listen.

If you watched the movie I highly recommend purchasing this book. For weeks after I continuously considered the plot. #Audible1

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a classic story

one of the best/ most descriptive books about being a vampire.

excellent story ok narrorator and slightly erotic tale. i could only listen to this book an hour at a time as the narrator spoke in an accent that made me sleepy every time. i did find it hard to finish because of this as i had to rewind if i fell asleep.

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a great listen

the readers voice compliments the story well. He captures Louis' perception of the Vampire world perfectly . I recommend

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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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Boring and disgusting

Made it about six hours in… The book drags an unbelievable amount, I had to give up due to the really creepy writing about children. I normally never leave reviews, but I am very offended with this book. The main character talks about his Love for a five year old girl… he makes one comment about how she is his bride. There are other scenes where the vampires suck the blood of children, it’s
Disturbing and comes across as very predatorily. The story is so dull, The author fails to grab any attention. There is nothing drawing me to know the ending, it’s so incredibly flat and unremarkable… The only thing that stands out is how unbelievably Predatorily everything is.

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  • 2023-02-07

Listen or Read this book!

I usually read books at a slow pace as I'm not the strongest at reading. Mostly read before bed, vacation or during break at work! This book had me flipping pages and listening to what I read already on audible at night! The audible gave me a different perspective! I'm giving the narrator a 4.5 because I do love his voice and how he pauses. Honestly I was reading it so much faster and it made me appreciate parts I didn't, when reading myself.

Side Note: I've never had so many people at work or on my current vacation... Mention that this author or that this is book and the movie are all amazing! I'm on a sci-fi book bender and I do recommend this! About to watch the movie and heard the show is good? 🤟

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Like revisiting an old friend

I read this book several years ago, I had the hard cover version which I have since passed on to someone else. So I selected this to listen to as I didnt have anything that appealed to me, and I was looking for a good Vampire novel, that seem to be hard to come by these days.

I remembered it and fell in love with it all over again. Its was like visiting an old friend whom I havent seen in awhile. I wasnt disappointed and really liked listening to it this time instead of reading.

Anne Rice at her beautiful best.

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The real story unlike the movies!

more vivid and horrific than either of the movies! Too bad The script left out much of the book.

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