While we wait for the third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” (officially titled “The Vampire Lestat“), Knopf is celebrating the landmark 50th anniversary of Anne Rice’s iconic novel.
The beautiful Hardcover 50th Anniversary Edition features a jacket with foil and embossing, sprayed edges, designed endpapers, a new foreword from Leigh Bardugo, an afterword by Christopher Rice, and never-before-seen bonus pages from the original manuscript.
Knopf previews, “Here are the confessions of a vampire: a hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual story of Louis de Pointe du Lac’s first two hundred years as one of the living dead. We begin on the night when Louis, disaffected and reluctant heir to a Louisiana plantation, is turned into a vampire by Lestat. Radiant, petulant, and powerful, Lestat becomes Louis’ companion and urges him to embrace the hungers and feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the “superior” sensual pleasures. As Louis struggles to retain the last residue of human feeling within him, he discovers must commit the ultimate act: to break away from his creator and discover the new world to which he belongs—whatever the cost.
“This is a story of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, of gaining humanity and losing it, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.”
It was back in 1976 that Anne Rice’s classic vampire novel Interview With the Vampire first came onto the scene, introducing the world to Lestat de Lioncourt and launching Rice’s long-running series of The Vampire Chronicles novels. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise starred in the 1994 movie adaptation, while AMC’s television series brought Lestat back to life beginning in 2022.
