![]() With vampire fiction back on the rise and a new television adaptation in the works, here are 11 things you might not know about Interview With the Vampire.ġ. It also became a seminal work for the burgeoning goth subculture Liisa Ladouceur, author of 2011's " Encyclopedia Gothica," calls "Interview With the Vampire" "a goth bible of sorts." The novel kicked off a decades-spanning, 13-book series, inspired a hit film and multiple comic book adaptations, and established the template for a popular vampire trope. Rice gave Nosferatu a modern makeover, imagining vampires as literal rock stars.īut the influence of Rice's novel doesn't stop at setting the stage for vampire yarns like " The Lost Boys," " Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and " True Blood." LGBTQ+ readers embraced the book for its queer subtext (which just became, well, text in later series installments) and its depiction of vampires as outsiders feared by mainstream society. ![]() There had been angsty, romantic vampires before, but even Barnabas Collins seemed like a relic from another time. ![]() This story originally appeared on Mental Floss.įorty-five years after its publication, Anne Rice's 1976 novel "Interview With the Vampire" stands as one of the most influential bloodsucker tales ever published - second only, perhaps, to Bram Stoker's " Dracula." Rice's debut novel is almost single-handedly responsible for the image of vampires that dominates pop culture today: conflicted, brooding, and oozing sex appeal from every moonlit pore. ![]()
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