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Interview with the Vampire: where to start reading

Adapts The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

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After Season 1, in the books you are

at Interview with the Vampire.

roughly the first half of the novel, heavily reframed.

Show and books diverge here

The first season covers roughly the first half of the novel, but moves the setting to 1910s New Orleans and reworks the leads, so it is a loose, reframed adaptation rather than a faithful one.

Start reading at Interview with the Vampire (the first novel)

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Interview with the Vampire

The Vampire Lestat

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The books, in order

1Interview with the Vampire1976
2The Vampire Lestat1985

Seasons 1 and 2 together adapt Anne Rice's first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976), but heavily reframed: the era, Louis's background, and Claudia's age are all changed. Season 3 moves on to the second novel, The Vampire Lestat.

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