Talk:Interview with the Vampire

Adaptation Citations

I added some citations in Adaptations underneath the comics subheading since there were none before. I mainly cited comics.org since it had the most information and was the most reliable source out of what I could find. Still not sure it is reliable enough to be cited, so if anyone finds a better site I'd encourage you to change it.

Also, finding a citation for the statement "A Japanese manga adaptation by Udou Shinohara was published in 1994 by Tokuma Shoten" proved very difficult to the point that I left it as a [citation needed]. The only sources I could find were sketchy anime sites and fan pages so, again, if you can find anything reliable that would be great. Here's some sites to start with, though I can't promise the info is correct:

https://www.mangaupdates.com/author/hlivodj/shinohara-udou

https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/yoake-no-vampire

https://myanimelist.net/manga/8570/Interview_with_the_Vampire

https://interviewwiththevampire.wordpress.com/adaptations/

https://www.tokuma.jp/ StarrySkye1205 (talk) 05:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Why is it rated of highly importance to the horror genre?

Hi there, I was wondering why this article is listed as of high importance to the horror genre? I couldn't find an answer in the article itself, so I'm posting it here in the hopes that someone more familiar with the series will be able to tell me. Thanks! Cornonthehunt (talk) 06:39, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I would guess because Anne Rice is well-known in horror writing circles and this was her debut novel, but I'm not sure. DonIago (talk) 20:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

You're right, this article is lacking in sources about its themes and impact, but the novel (and the series) really redefined vampire fiction in multiple ways, including the depth of its characters and more overt homoeroticism, and has been a huge influence on subsequent modern fiction in that genre.— TAnthony^Talk 22:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Ah, that's interesting to know. Thank you very much! Cornonthehunt (talk) 04:38, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

For one thing, most previous vampire novels focused on the POV of a vampire's victims or its opponents. The novel shifted the focus on the POV of the vampires' themselves, and depicted them as having their own subcultures and philosophical perspectives on how to deal with their needs for blood. Within a few decades, there were book series with sympathetic vampires as part of their main cast, such as Vampire Academy, Black Dagger Brotherhood,The Vampire Diaries, and House of Night. Another groundbreaking point is that Interview with the Vampire got rid of the Christian symbolism and religious-themed vampiric weaknesses that had been in use since the 19th century. Crosses, crucifixes, etc have no effect on the vampires of the work, and the vampires are not demonic in nature. Lestat de Lioncourt ponders whether a monotheistic god exists, and he has no real answers to offer to metaphysical questions. Dimadick (talk) 07:54, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Fascinating. Thanks a lot, I'm learning more than I ever knew about this series! :-] Cornonthehunt (talk) 07:42, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Publication date

Hello all. I have a question regarding the publication date of the novel Interview with the Vampire. For many years now this date has been listed on Wikipedia as April 12, 1976; however, I have contemporaneous print sources that state the publication as being May 5, 1976 (said sources are three issues of Publishers Weekly from 1976). Other print sources I have—albeit published much later—include reprints of the Knopf hardcover (1994 and 2007 respectively, but same ISBN as the first edition) which expressly state on the copyright page that the date of publication was May 5, 1976, and the exact same date being mentioned as the novel's release date in Katherine Ramsland's official biography of Anne Rice, Prism of the Night (both original and revised editions). This being said, I am confused as to the origin of the April 12, 1976 publication date. Where is this conclusively proven to be true? The citation for the date on the current version of the Wikipedia page for the novel links to a Biblio page. Am I correct in considering this citation as dubious? Would my amending the publication date to May 5, 1976 be sufficiently supported by even one of the offline, print sources I mentioned? FransHattingh (talk) 09:07, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't even see April listed at the current citation; I'd say go ahead and update it if you have a better reference. Thanks for bringing this up! DonIago (talk) 19:34, 16 April 2026 (UTC)