Dearest Lestat (I hope it is alright to use your first name?) Other than your own, what is your favourite vampire book or series?

//Sorry, my Lestat can’t answer this one 😛 Since I haven’t read many other vampire books or series, I can’t consider what his opinion would be on them! 

He’d probably be more into the vampire movies and graphic novels/comics than novels and series. Lestat was into

Sam Spade

comics before it was cool to be a giant nerd! ;D 

He does read books, he did a lot of reading to educate himself on the state of the world in 1984, but remember how he felt about Gabrielle’s bookworminess: “I hated the sight of her books; I hated her absorption in them.” 

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[X by @so-bad-its-effin-awesome

However, I did ask around and got some recs from other ppl about other vampire books/series Lestat might like:

@annabellioncourt:

  • The Historian (for its worldliness), 
  • Dracula (for its stereotype-setting content), 
  • Lord Ruthven (Byronic vampire, Lestat doesn’t catch the irony of John Polidori’s mockery of the foppish, arrogant, and well…Lord-Byron-y vampire)
  • Tanith Lee’s vampire series was out when Lestat was playing rockstar
  • The Delicate Dependency, for romance and decadence.
  • and also A Taste of Blood Wine, also for romance and decadence.

@riverofwhispers:

  • Carmilla is good
  • Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse books, but only the early ones.
  • the Rachel Morgan series but again starts out good gets weird later and it’s not about vampires so much as there are vampires in it.

Anyone can reblog/comment and add to this what you think Lestat might like to read! We’ll make this a recc post under #vc adjacent recs.

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