Book Review: Interview With The Vampire 50th Anniversary Edition By Anne Rice

Book Review: Interview With The Vampire 50th Anniversary Edition By Anne Rice By Empress Eve | @ | Tuesday, October 6th, 2026 at 9:19 am Interview With The Vampire 50th Anniversary Edition Book 1: The Vampire Chronicles Hardcover By Anne Rice Foreword by Leigh Bardugo; Afterword by Christopher Rice Publisher: Knopf Release Date: October 6, 2026 For its 50th anniversary, Anne Rice’s groundbreaking debut novel, Interview With The Vampire, gets an attractive new hardcover edition with an Afterword by her writer-son Christopher Rice, who touches upon the heartbreaking inspiration behind his late mother’s classic vampire story. Back in 1976, the world was seemingly not yet ready for Anne Rice‘s Interview With The Vampire, an erotic gothic horror set in late 18th-century New Orleans about the complicated relationship of two male vampires and the little daughter vampire they create. Written soon after the death of her 5-year-old daughter, the struggling author’s debut novel was initially panned by critics. After its paperback release the following year, though, it began to gain underground cult status. But it wasn’t until the mid-1980s, after its first two sequels — 1985’s The Vampire Les...