The Weird History of Anne Rice’s Vampires in Comic Books

Anne Rice’s novels were most popular in the late 1980s. While her 1976 novel, Interview with the Vampire, gained a dedicated following over time, the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat, quickly became a bestseller, building on the success of the first book. In 1988, The Queen of the Damned reached the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The following year, Ballantine published the first three novels together as The Vampire Chronicles, and sales exploded. For many Goth readers, these books were as important as The Lord of the Rings, offering a dark and romantic world filled with blood and mystery.






