![]() ![]() ![]() Even so, a reviewer for The New York Times bared their fangs at THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, saying it’s, “a lot like spending an entire day in a museum featuring only works by Henry Fuseli – all hung in heavy, gilt frames decorated with curlicues and malicious cherubs. Published in 1985 to spend six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT came nearly a decade after the release of INTERVIEW, which received mixed reviews from critics (some praising Anne’s lush and hypnotic prose and others decrying the novel’s “ suckling eroticism”), but ultimately captured the still-beating hearts of mortal readers worldwide. After Louis de Point du Lac’s less-than-flattering portrayal of his maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, the Brat Prince himself takes center stage in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, the second installment in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. ![]()
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