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1900s: Have you ever sat down and interviewed a vampire?
Interview With The Vampire
What you need to know before your trail
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life – the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice’s compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897.
Travel Guide
BookTrail Travel to New Orleans
This is perhaps the best gothic city and the best book to showcase the settings of that gothic city. From the graveyards to the mansion houses, the cobbled dark streets, and the shadowy alleyways, this city has it all.
Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac sits in a large manor house, and tells the story of his life to a reporter. Rice composed the novel shortly after the death of her young daughter Michelle, who served as an inspiration for the child-vampire character Claudia. There are overshadows of death and darkness throughout this novel and it’s very creepy. The author had her home here and it resembled a large plantation house in the middle of the city.
The graveyards are perhaps the best and most iconic place to start and finish any tour of this book.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Interview with the Vampire
Destination: New Orleans Author/guide: Anne Rice Departure Time: 1900s
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