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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.
— Mar 28, 2026 01:29PM
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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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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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Mar 28, 2026 01:35PM
the idea of Lestat’s transformation is kind of ridiculous. There is another vampire, and his name is MAGNUS, and this dude was an elderly man who quested for immortality and found it in the blood of a vampire, but he wasn’t turned; as far as vampires are concerned, he “stole” immortality. Magnus made use of his years but, as Rice conjectures in the first book, vampires die from existential ennui. Magnus was done with his time and so he made Lestat, fulfilling some sort of psychosis as evidenced by the HUGE pile of lookalikes that he had killed, and then destroyed himself, barely giving any advice to Lestat beyond how not to kill himself while feeding.
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Magnus is in and out as a plot device to give Lestat his vampirism, but thematically he is part of Rice’s theme on looking for meaning in existence when you suspect that it is meaningless.
