The Vampire Chronicles
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The Vampire Chronicles is a series of Gothic vampire novels and a media franchise, created by American author Anne Rice, that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century. Rice said in a 2008 interview that her vampires were a "metaphor for lost souls". The homoerotic overtones of The Vampire Chronicles are also well-documented. As of November 2008, The Vampire Chronicles had sold 80 million copies worldwide. The first novel in the series, Interview with the Vampire (1976), was made into a 1994 film of the same name. The Queen of the Damned (1988) was adapted into a 2002 film of the same name, which also used some material from The Vampire Lestat (1985). Both films were released by Warner Bros. Pictures. A television series, Interview with the Vampire, premiered on AMC in 2022.
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| Number | Title | Year | ISBN |
| 1 | Interview with the Vampire | 1976 | mw- body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- } }0-394-49821-6 |
| 2 | The Vampire Lestat | 1985 | 1-127-49040-0 |
| 3 | The Queen of the Damned | 1988 | 978-0-394-55823-3 |
| 4 | The Tale of the Body Thief | 1992 | 978-0-679-40528-3 |
| 5 | Memnoch the Devil | 1995 | 0-679-44101-8 |
| 6 | The Vampire Armand | 1998 | 978-0-679-45447-2 |
| 7 | Merrick | 2000 | 0-679-45448-9 |
| 8 | Blood and Gold | 2001 | 0-679-45449-7 |
| 9 | Blackwood Farm | 2002 | 0-345-44368-3 |
| 10 | Blood Canticle | 2003 | 0-375-41200-X |
| 11 | Prince Lestat | 2014 | 978-0-307-96252-2 |
| 12 | Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis | 2016 | 978-0-385-35379-3 |
| 13 | Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat | 2018 | 978-1-5247-3264-6 |
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