![]() The influence of Interview (and to a lesser extent, its sequels) cannot be overstated: it did away with the majority of Stoker’s lore, introduced the mechanic of new vampires being created by drinking their maker’s blood, and invented the archetype of the adult vampire trapped in a child’s body. It explicitly shifted the genre’s focus from a monstrous Otherized invader to the existential dread of immortality, paving the way for other sympathetic, sexy vampires as it went. ![]() Outside of Dracula, no other book has shaped our cultural image of vampires as much as Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. ![]()
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