Anne Rice revives much-loved vampire for new novel Prince Lestat Interview with the Vampire author brings back her anti-hero after more than a decade. Alison Flood theguardian, Tuesday 11 March 2014 08.47 EDT Lestat, the blood-sucking anti-hero who made his first appearance in Interview with the Vampire almost 40 years ago and was played by Tom Cruise in the 1994 film, is set to return, author Anne Rice has announced. To a chorus of delight from fans – Vampire Bibliographica called it the most enticingly delicious news of the decade – Rice revealed that her next novel would be called Prince Lestat, and would update readers on her most famous creation, whom she refers to as the Brat Prince, and his latest doings. The new book would be a big Vampire Chronicle, she told The Dinner Party Show, an internet show co-hosted by her son Christopher Rice. It is all about Lestat and all about the vampires, and what they are doing right now, how they are coming to terms with everything thats happened to them, how Lestat is dealing with the demand from all side that he steps forward and becomes some sort of leader of the tribe. I just cried! And squealed! And generally completely freaked my family out! Thank you, Anne! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have missed Lestat so! wrote one fan on Rices Facebook page. Take your Throne back, Mrs Rice! Remind the current vampire novelists what a real vampire book is all about, said another. Rice, who published Interview with the Vampire to huge success in 1976, has previously spoken dismissively of the vampires dreamed up by Stephenie Meyer for Twilight, saying she feel[s] sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun, and that Lestat would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town – any more than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. In her novel The Vampire Lestat, the character says: Im Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful, Rice said in 2011. Prince Lestat, which will be published in October, and which Rice finished last year, will be a sequel to the first five Vampire Chronicles stories, she announced, and novel one of a new series. Im very happy to announce it because it took me a very long time to write this, said the author. I had to read all the Vampire Chronicles over again and I had to kind of … I dont want to be irritating or pretentious talking about a character as if hes a real human being, but I really had to wrestle Lestat to the ground, and beat him up, and say look, youve got to talk to me, Ive got to know what youve been doing. Because I cant really write novels about that character unless he wants to come through, and it really is like hes a living breathing being somewhere, and suddenly he did, he came through, and he started to talk and I was taking the dictation, and everything went splendidly well and it was very exciting. Rice had thought she would never write about Lestat again – she hasnt tackled the world of vampires since 2003s Blood Canticle. But then she finally had a novel to write, a story to tell with him, and I had his voice again with me … and it happened. I couldnt make that happen, I couldnt force that, I couldnt pull it out of a hat like a rabbit, she said. theguardian/books/2014/mar/11/anne-rice-vampire-prince-lestat-interview-with-the-vampire
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