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There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular culture. But what happens when the subtext becomes the text, and vampires come out of closets as well as coffins?

Interview with the Vampire brings Anne Rice's seductive world to the small screen in the AMC series.

Vampires are back, though given the immortality, can they ever really go away? Last month saw the debut of Peacock’s “Vampire Academy”; “What We Do in the Shadows” continues to be one of the best and funniest shows on television. And in the first days of October, three additional vampire…

A "toxic, beautiful love story." We've seen Anne Rice's vampires before but not like this

Anne Rice’s 1976 novel “Interview with the Vampire” comes with plenty of name recognition and an established fan base, but also considerable baggage from the disastrous 1994 movie starring the twin miscastings of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. You can’t fault audiences who might be wary of AMC’s eight-episode adaptation,…

A hit-and-miss adaptation of the 1976 novel has replaced the homoeroticism of the 1994 movie with explicit sex

The fall TV season is upon us, and if that doesn’t have the same frisson of excitement as it once did — back when the summer was a wasteland of reruns rather than proliferating with new streaming series each week, well … who’s complaining? One small trend to emerge: After…

Sam Reid, who plays Lestat, is a huge Anne Rice fan and gives insights into his character in the upcoming series

Vastly inferior to "Interview with the Vampire" before it, this clunky sequel isn't without its strange charms