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This is the TRUE STORY of Lestat, who bookended Louis’s story from Interview With the Vampire. The opening tone is very tongue-in-cheek. Lestat had awoken late in the 20th century and has decided to join up with a goth band, Satan’s Night Out, to become a rock star. He also finds out that Louis’s tell-all has been published as a work of fiction. Naturally, he must tell HIS side of the story.
— Mar 28, 2026 11:06AM
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Lestat is confronted with his mother’s imminent mortality and asks her, do you want to become a vampire? And she says, “Hell yes I want to become a vampire!!” The story gets weird here as the story quasi-incestual nature of their relationship is more manifest when the two of them are vampires…not that it’s as weird as Louis and Claudia were. Of course, I’m sure that vamp-Gabrielle will work out great!!!
— Mar 30, 2026 10:39AM
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Lestat is a mysterious character in the first book. We never find out his origin, the significance of his blind father, only that he provided for him up until his death out of some feeling of obligation. Rice’s BIG REVEAL just raises more questions, but it DOES fall in line with part of what Louis and Claudia suspected. He knew nothing, and his master was dead, but not through any action of Lestat’s.
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Mar 28, 2026 11:07AM
Lestat is kind of up his own ass but the moment that he has a complete mental breakdown when he imagines the oblivion of his own consciousness after death is an achingly real moment.
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Also bundle up the idea of Lestat cruising around on a motorcycle at night and put it in an envelope to Cassandra Clare
Actually I’m not selling this hard enough. Lestat wants to tell HIS STORY as an overblown rock opera told in music videos. Thinking back to IWtV, Lestat was always a theater kid, he was just performing for himself.
also, Lestat accuses Louis of lying in his book. It remains to be seen exactly what he believes Louis has lied about, but we don’t have a conception of Lestat as a reliable narrator. We sort of take for granted that Louis was, and in a vacuum (imagine where the first published release can exist independently of its sequels, which do not inherently challenge the authority of the prior work), I basically trust what he has to say.
