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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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3 seasons
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2 books
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Diverges
from the books
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)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 leaves off about 50% in. Pick the book up right there:
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice · Book 1 of 2
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What the show changed here
- ChangedThe framing becomes a present-day 2022 second interview, with an elderly Daniel Molloy revisiting a first talk from 1973.
- ChangedDaniel Molloy is aged up from a young reporter to an experienced author conducting the interview decades later.
- ChangedThe Louis and Lestat relationship is made explicitly romantic on screen rather than the novel's subtext.
- ChangedThe setting moves from a 1791 Louisiana plantation to early-1900s New Orleans and the Storyville district.
- ChangedLouis is reconceived as a Black Creole businessman instead of the novel's white plantation owner.
- ChangedClaudia is aged up from a five-year-old child in the novel to a fourteen-year-old.
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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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