The Vampire Lestat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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Background

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Prologue-Part 1

Parts 2-3

Parts 4-5

Parts 6-7

Epilogues 1-2

Character Analysis

Themes

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Important Quotes

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Essay Topics

Lestat, before meeting the Children of Darkness, is a vigilante who preys on evil men. After learning the rules of the coven, he breaks them by performing vampirism publicly. How does Lestat’s morality and the morality of the book depend on rules and laws?

How did The Vampire Lestat influence depictions of vampires in more recent literature, such as Stephanie Meyers’s Twilight and Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries? In what ways are conceptions of vampires in these later works similar or different to Anne Rice’s?

The Theater of the Vampires perform as vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires. How does this double performance reflect the nature of the theatrical arts?