
1239 First Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
- God has abandoned you. You’re fine with it. Really.
- You are a supernatural creature, and if not, you are swept up in a passion so otherworldly and consuming you may as well be.
- You take huge revelations, shocks, and life changes pretty much in stride and don’t waste time resisting the unknown. The unknown might be a vampire or a new sexual experience or a grand international adventure, but most probably it’s all three.
- You are strangely intimate with all your acquaintances and go on for pages about how beautiful they are. If you are male, It will come to light by your own casual admission that you have gone to bed with an older but still handsome and always disarming male friend of the family. You will call it making love. But no homo.
- Everyone around you is exchanging needful touches and tender glances like this is a softcore porn novel. Wait, is it?
- You swoon, cry, and pine an awful lot.
- At some point in the narrative, you will end up in an ornate Catholic church and be filled with a sense of nostalgia and longing and existential angst.
- You are really not okay with the apparent fact that God has abandoned you. You secretly hope you are still worthy of His love.
- You spend at least 20% of the narrative in New Orleans, probably the Garden District.

Orion over St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, 9pm
SO much better when viewed at the permalink on a computer or large tablet: http://nolasapiens.tumblr.com/post/116349260666/orion-over-st-louis-cathedral-new-orleans-9pm
Photo by Will Brown
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion…

Madame John’s Legacy on Flickr.
Madame John’s Legacy is a house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The name is taken from a story by George Washington Cable.[2] The house was built in 1788, after a fire destroyed much of the neighborhood. The house was rebuilt in the older French colonial style, rather than the then current Spanish style.
The housefront was used in the funeral scene in the 1994 film ‘Interview With The vampire’ after Lestat and Claudia take the family in the house as their victims.
632 Dumaine St.
New Orleans


Louis and Claudia from Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
I’m so tired.
The Cabildo, 701 Chartres, New Orleans, LA.
Opened 1795. The Cabildo was the seat of colonial government in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is now a museum. The Cabildo is located along Jackson Square, adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral.