Interview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance
Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience
January 2024
‘No wands or broomsticks’: how TV is reinventing the modern-day witch
With 2024 is set to be the year of the witch, writers are replacing the traditional image with sassy, sexy and dark characters
September 2022
TV review
Interview with the Vampire review – Anne Rice’s gothic horror gets queer TV update
A hit-and-miss adaptation of the 1976 novel has replaced the homoeroticism of the 1994 movie with explicit sex
December 2021
Anne Rice, author of Interview With the Vampire, dies aged 80
Horror writers pay tribute after bestselling gothic novelist dies of complications from stroke
March 2021
The return of the bonkbuster: how horny heroines are starting a new sexual revolution
I longed for novels about female desire - women empowered by sex and their expressions of lust. So I sat down and wrote my own
January 2020
From the Guardian archive
Women's love affair with the vampire – archive, 1993
2 January 1993 The vampire, continually being re-interpreted and renewed, can be incorporated into almost any sexual fantasy
May 2019
Watched plots … Hilary Mantel and the writers under pressure from fans
With the Wolf Hall novelist set to finish her trilogy in 2020, Philip Pullman, Anne Rice and others discuss how expectations can affect the creative process
October 2018
The best recent SF, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson; The Pale Ones by Bartholomew Bennett; Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker; I Always Find You by John Ajvide Lindqvist; and Blood Communion by Anne Rice
July 2016
Anne Rice finds there's still life in Lestat with a new vampire novel
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, described by the author as ‘one of my greatest personal adventures’, is due out in November
August 2015
Anne Rice hits out at 'internet lynch mobs' attacking controversial books
Interview With the Vampire author says attempts to ‘take down’ Kate Breslin’s concentration camp romance with bad Amazon reviews amount to censorship
March 2015
Reading American cities
Reading American cities: books about New Orleans
To mark the Tennessee Williams New Orleans literary festival, Susan Larson walks us through the essential literature to understand the city – from classics to accounts of life after Katrina
October 2014
Prince Lestat by Anne Rice review – blood drinkers with iPhones
The Q&A
Q&A: Anne Rice
August 2014
Universal buys rights to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles book series
Film studio invests in vampire series as part of its larger plan to resurrect monster movie genre
March 2014
Anne Rice revives much-loved vampire for new novel Prince Lestat
Anne Rice signs petition to protest bullying of authors on Amazon
September 2012
Books blog
From Lestat to Harry Potter: which characters should be resurrected?
Alison Flood: As Anne Rice and JK Rowling tease fans about bringing back two much-loved characters, are there any fictional heroes you'd like to see return to the page?
July 2012
Books blog
Maeve Binchy: a big-hearted guide to friendship, love and loss
Anne Rice backs equal rights for women to enjoy erotica
April 2012
I Am Legend is named vampire novel of the century
Richard Matheson's 1954 novel bats off competition from Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire to win one-off Bram Stoker prize
