Happy Halloween Readers,
I picked The Vampire Chronicles for vampire week as I think Lestat would love a whole blog post about him.
The Vampire Chronicles series contains 12 books two of
which have been made into films and there are rumours of a tv series.
The series of books revolves around the fictional
character Lestat de Lioncourt and his pre-vampire days in eighteenth-century
rural France to his vampire life in nineteenth-century New Orleans to his
adventures in the United States during the twentieth century. Lestat wants to
know how vampires were created, mourns the loss of his mortal life, and
explores the existence of good and evil.
Anne Rice’s vampires are created by being drained of
blood to the point of death, then allowed to save themselves by drinking, in
turn, the blood of the vampire who made them. They did not fear garlic,
crucifixes, holy water, or silver and wooden stakes are only a danger if the
sun comes up while they were struggling to get free.
Lestat embodies an aristocratic vampire in 18th century
Paris. A bold, enthusiastic and defiant being, who delights in his own
arrogance and conceited attitude, Lestat carries himself with the aura of
richness and entitlement. Lestat stands at six feet, with thick rather curly
blonde hair, green eyes a nose is fairly short and narrow, while his mouth is
well shaped and his skin deathly white. Lestat’s egotistic qualities and
concerns with fashion are shown through the series he will pause mid-narrative
merely to remind the reader what he is wearing. However, underneath this
façade, he is a tortured soul scarred by the turmoil and betrayal of his past.
Lestat has been played by Tom Cruise (Interview with the
Vampire) and Stuart Townsend (The Queen of the Damned) for a while I preferred
the Queen of the Damned film version of Lestat but then I watched Rock of ages
and now Stacee Jaxx is Queen of the Damned Lestat.
Books in
the series (I’ve only read up to Blood Canticle)
Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
The Vampire Armand (1998)
Merrick (2000)
Blood and Gold (2001)
Blackwood Farm (2002)
Blood Canticle (2003)
Prince Lestat (2014)
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016)
L x
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