Interview with the Vampire: 50th Anniversary Event

The event will feature a discussion between Christopher Rice, Eric Shaw Quinn, and international bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout on the enduring impact of this iconic novel that transformed a genre and the continuing legacy of author Anne Rice.

This event will be hosted on the 6th Floor of The Strand Building located at 826 Broadway on 12th Street.

Can’t make the event? Purchase a copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Interview with the Vampire here.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.

ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by Sept. 26 to request.

Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.

For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com

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The 50th anniversary edition of the spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

This dazzling special edition features a jacket with foil and embossing, sprayed edges, designed endpapers, a new foreword by Leigh Bardugo, an afterword by Christopher Rice, and never-before-seen bonus pages from Anne Rice's original manuscript.

Here are the confessions of a vampire: a hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual story of Louis de Pointe du Lac's first two hundred years as one of the living dead. We're transported to the night when Louis, disaffected and reluctant heir to a Louisiana plantation, is turned into a vampire by Lestat. Radiant and powerful, Lestat becomes Louis’s companion and urges him to embrace the hungers and feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. As Louis struggles to retain the last residue of human feeling within him, he must commit the ultimate act: to break away from his creator and discover the new world to which he belongs—whatever the cost.
This is a story of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, of gaining humanity and losing it, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.