

Since he's working at a low-rent theater in the commedia dell'arte at the time, he finds this conviction less than comforting.


Nowadays the cultural importance of The Vampire Chronicles has been forgotten by everyone except hardcore vampire fans, though said influence itself remains all-encompassing and is likely to persist in the zeitgeist for a very long time. Eventually The Twilight Saga came along and provided a much worse example of lame vampires, though really harsh critics will blame the former for setting the stage for the latter to be created. That continued for years until the Anne Rice vampire craze wore off. Of course, this led to everlasting animosity from fans of old school vampires who didn't like that their favorite movie monster were "sissified" and no longer threatening. The Goth scene owes a ton to Interview with the Vampire. These were vampires you were supposed to find attractive. Rice's vampires in contrast were modern, petulant, deliciously angsty, incredibly fabulous, and dripping with bisexual eroticism. Before Interview the general public's image of vampires was based on Dracula via Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, who, while a sex god in his own right, was mysterious, distant, threatening, and a metaphor for rape. Trope Codifier for the modern day interpretation of Vampires Are Sex Gods. Throughout the series the protagonist, Lestat, seeks the origin of the vampire species and tries to fit his need for blood into a workable moral system. The Vampire Chronicles are a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolve around the adventures of an ever-changing coven of vampires. Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
