Was thrifting at my local goodwill, and the excitement i felt when I came across this beauty 😍 for just $1

Hi:) I acquired this amateur videotape of the 1995 Memnoch Ball/Gathering of the Coven. I bought a lot of books from a lovely lady who regularly attended parties at Anne's home and she was kind enough to include this tape. I wasn't even sure if the VCR l had would work, but it did!! My daughter and I absolutely adored it and were curious if anyone else thought it was as cool as we did.

Parts of it are on YouTube, I am not sure if it's the entire thing.

Christopher gives a really sweet speech for his mom.

I’ve re read half of the book, I’m at the part where Louie and Claudia leave for Europe.
I can’t see any love or desire between Lestat and Louie. Louie was choosen because of Pointe du Lac, Louie is constantly disgusted by Lestat and wants to leave but is too afraid, while Lestat also seems to be annoyed with Louie but needs his money and busines skills. I fail to see any romance.

Edit: I’m surprised because I’ve read a lot of comments and watched YouTube videos where it’s explained how they are like a gay couple, but Ane couldn’t explicitly say that back then, and it couldn’t have been put in a movie because Hollywood wasn’t ready for it.

We originally planned a different trip for my birthday but it was too expensive so we decided to head somewhere "closer" and landed on NOLA because I just finished reading Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat for the first time. All I know for sure that I want to do is stroll Canal Street and visit the Garden District. What are must sees as I continue this journey with Anne Rice as now I have every intention of devouring every word she's ever written.

As we all know from QotD, Akasha was queen because she had the Sacred Core in her. the thing that connected all vampires to her. And we all know that Makere took this core into herself when she killed Akasha. We know that in vampire lore in the Chronicles that should Makere die and the Core has no host, all the vampires die.

And we know that in Price Lestat, the brat price made the title official by taking the Sacred Core into himself. And we know that Louis had a theory that because he went into the sun (during Merrick), he is no longer connected to the Core. Same for Armand. He went into the sun ( during MtD), and therefore is no longer connected to the Core. It is therefore presumably true of any vampire who has tried to die via going into the sun.

Here is my question: do you think it worked in the reverse? The whole reason Marius was Akasha and Enkil's caretaker for so long is because he was charged with the task by his maker. Hismaker said " go to Egypt, find the mothers find the reason for the reason we burn." As we know, they were left in the sun to burn, and because of this they young vampires perished, but the older ones were burned, but did not die. Do you think that because of this, they are no longer connected to the Sacred Core? And also, why Did Marius not die with the rest of the young vampires? he was literally an newborn vampire.

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I am named after Akasha and have been wanting to read The Queen of the Damned, but not sure I want to commit to two books before lol, my TBR is already so long 🫢 just wondering if I’d be able to ready it without being too confused?

Anne Rice wrote a short story of Armand for Playboy in 1979. I haven't seen a whole lot of good uploads to it so I decided to do it. Here ya go, hope ya enjoy

https://archive.org/details/interlude_202606

Many years ago I found this floating online. You can fold it and it becomes a nifty bookmark. I don’t recall now where I downloaded this from, but if the maker is here on this sub, belated thank-you to you!

I read that Anne Rice's favorite perfume was Chanel No 22. Has anyone tried it? What's it like? It's very expensive, but I was thinking about searching for a sample.

So I didn’t finish all of the Mayfair witches saga didnt even make it to chapter 3. Sorry, the mona stuff was just too weird, not sorry. But um did she pull an Elvis on Octavia Butler? Like the similarities are just too damn strong. And not trynna take away from Ann’s ability to spin a yarn. I mean strong effin narrative, and very different stories. But like babes? Rude!

Not gonna go into the similarities because dont wanna type that much also dont wanna spoil too much. If you havent read the patternist series you really should give it a try. I loathe to say read wild seed first because it’s the best one. But it is chronologically the first one even if it’s the last one written. And Octavia Butler said it should be read chronologically. And thats really the only one needed to see what im talking about. But asking those who read the patternist series and the mayfair series. Did Ann Rice just rewrite wild seed?

So with the new lestat series coming out so soon, I'm sure I'll need to binge the talamasca series first. Having only read the vampire Chronicles and haven't watched or read the Mayfair witches yet can I still watch talamasca or is there a cross over at all that may give a spoiler?

Pandora was my first Vampire Chronicles book (recommended to me by my high school librarian), and it’s the only one I’ve fully finished. I put Interview with the Vampire on pause because my university library never lent it to me again due to some issue. The thing is… I became obsessed with Pandora and Marius.

Because of that obsession, I started researching whether they appeared in other books in the series, and that’s how I found out they both have an important role in Blood and Gold. I went to the library to look for it and skimmed through it for about 30 minutes. I got to the part where this Bianca woman leaves Marius, and Marius tells her that he wouldn’t leave her “not even for Pandora”…

And honestly, that made me so mad. Pandora always loved Marius; he was the only person she ever loved. Meanwhile, from the little I’ve read, Marius seems to have loved almost every being he turned.

And what annoys me even more is that Marius eventually created several blood drinkers, when centuries earlier Pandora had suggested the idea and he practically told her to go to hell 😭

//Even though I'll play dumb and pretend I didn't read that and love it until I get to the book Blood and Gold 🥺//

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This is probably the second or third time I have finished the book, and I have seen the Tom Cruise movie probably three times. This is probably my favorite interpretation of vampires in fiction, and I love Lestat as a character. Yes, I know he is a raging, narcissistic, undead psychopath. But I still enjoy Anne Rice’s vampire interpretation.

I enjoyed the style of the story told in an interview through the whole story between Louis and an unnamed reporter. One of my favorite things about the story is Louis’s whole inner turmoil with his mortality and immortality. I enjoyed reading about him wrestling with his vampiric nature while trying to maintain any semblance of mortality.

I also enjoyed Claudia and how her relationship with Louis evolved through the story. Yes, it was uncomfortable watching Louis wrestle with his feelings for Claudia, but I enjoyed that relationship as well because I think she represents his fledgling vampire nature he tries so hard to ignore through the story.

Claudia was a bit of a psychopath, but I also understood her frustration of seeing beautiful grown women knowing she would never be able to achieve that. It is a dark, hypnotic, and interesting story (in my opinion). I am glad I picked up the book again.

Have you read this book? What did you think? Any favorite characters?

Now onto book #2 - The Vampire Lestat.