Interview with the Vampire: Books vs. Series
Interview with the Vampire is Rolin Jones's 2022 series, adapted from books by Anne Rice. It stars Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid and has run for 3 seasons and 22 episodes on AMC, with a fourth on the way.
From Books Adapted
Which books each season covers
The first book takes two seasons, then each book gets its own
Seasons one and two together adapt Interview with the Vampire, split down the middle of the book. From season three, each season takes the title of the book it adapts.
| Season | Book |
|---|---|
| 1 | Interview with the Vampire, book one, first half |
| 2 | Interview with the Vampire, book one, second half |
| 3 | The Vampire Lestat, book two, released under that title |
| 4* | The Queen of the Damned, book three, to be released as Queen of the Damned |
| A guide, not an exact match: shows move scenes and storylines between books and seasons. | |
* AMC renewed the series in July 2026, with Hannah Moscovitch taking over from Rolin Jones as showrunner.
The ten later Vampire Chronicles, from The Tale of the Body Thief to Blood Communion, haven't been adapted as seasons. The 1994 movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt is a separate adaptation of the first book. Mayfair Witches (2023) and Talamasca: The Secret Order (2025) are separate AMC series set in the same world.
What changed from the book
Changes to Characters
In the book, Louis is the young master of an indigo plantation in Louisiana in 1791. The series makes him a wealthy Black man who runs brothels in Storyville, New Orleans, in 1910. Rolin Jones said the period was as striking to look at as the eighteenth century, without telling a plantation story that nobody wanted to hear now.
The book's Claudia is made a vampire at about five years old. The series makes her fourteen, a change reported to be partly about Louisiana's child labor laws.
The interview is retold fifty years later
In the book, Louis tells his story to a young reporter the book calls only "the boy." The series turns it into a second interview: in 2022, Louis invites the journalist Daniel Molloy to Dubai to revisit the one they recorded in 1973, and Daniel keeps questioning what Louis remembers.
Louis and Lestat's romance is out in the open
Rice's books suggest the love between Louis and Lestat, and the 1994 movie only hinted at it. The series makes it the center of the story. Jones called it a gothic romance and said he wanted to write "a very excitable, aggressive, toxic, beautiful love story."
The books, in order
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1976
- Pages
- 368
- Audiobook length
- 14 hr 8 min
- Narrator
- Dan Bittner
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 1
A vampire named Louis tells a young interviewer how grief and an encounter with Lestat draw him into an existence sustained by blood. In New Orleans, his unease about killing clashes with Lestat's appetites, while the creation of the child vampire Claudia binds them into a troubled household. Louis searches for an explanation of what he has become and whether any part of his humanity can survive.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1985
- Pages
- 512
- Audiobook length
- 24 hr 34 min
- Narrator
- Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 2
Lestat de Lioncourt wakes in 1980s New Orleans after years underground and sets out to become a rock star. In a memoir he tells his own story, from his youth as a nobleman in eighteenth-century France to the search that led him to the oldest vampires.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1988
- Pages
- 480
- Audiobook length
- 24 hr 33 min
- Narrator
- Robin Miles, Vikas Adam
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 3
Lestat's music wakes Akasha, the first vampire, after thousands of years of stillness. As she rises, vampires around the world share the same dream of red-haired twin sisters and are drawn together.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1992
- Pages
- 464
- Audiobook length
- 18 hr 2 min
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 4
Weary of being a vampire, Lestat is offered a trade by a man named Raglan James: a few days in a human body in exchange for his own. Lestat accepts and finds out what being mortal is like again.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1995
- Pages
- 432
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 33 min
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 5
A being who calls himself Memnoch, and claims to be the Devil, wants Lestat to work for him. To persuade him, Memnoch takes Lestat to see Heaven and Hell.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 1998
- Pages
- 500
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 46 min
- Narrator
- Jonathan Marosz
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 6
Armand tells his own story, from his capture as a boy in Kievan Rus' to Renaissance Venice, where the vampire Marius takes him in and later makes him a vampire.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2000
- Pages
- 496
- Audiobook length
- 14 hr 56 min
- Narrator
- Alejandro Vargas-Lugo
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 7
Louis wants to speak with Claudia again. David Talbot asks Merrick Mayfair, a witch who was once his student in the Talamasca, to raise her ghost.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2001
- Pages
- 752
- Audiobook length
- 18 hr 36 min
- Narrator
- Roger Rees
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 8
Marius, one of the oldest vampires, tells his story to the vampire Thorne, from his making in the Roman Empire through the centuries he spent guarding Akasha and Enkil.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2002
- Pages
- 784
- Audiobook length
- 20 hr 37 min
- Narrator
- David Pittu
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 9
Quinn Blackwood, a young vampire haunted all his life by a spirit he calls Goblin, asks Lestat for help and tells him the story of his family's Louisiana estate.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2003
- Pages
- 392
- Audiobook length
- 11 hr 32 min
- Narrator
- David Pittu
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 10
Lestat falls for Mona Mayfair and is drawn into the affairs of the Mayfair witches, bringing Anne Rice's vampire and witch books together.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2014
- Pages
- 608
- Audiobook length
- 18 hr 52 min
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 11
A mysterious voice is urging young vampires to burn their elders, and vampires around the world are dying. The survivors look to Lestat to lead them.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2016
- Pages
- 560
- Audiobook length
- 17 hr 13 min
- Narrator
- Simon Vance
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 12
Lestat has taken up leadership of the vampires when dreams of a lost civilization, Atlantis, and the arrival of people tied to it raise new questions about where vampires came from.
Details
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Year
- 2018
- Pages
- 272
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 49 min
- Narrator
- Eric Shaw Quinn
- Series
- The Vampire Chronicles, book 13
Lestat, now Prince of the vampires, tells how he tries to hold their community together from his castle in France while old enemies challenge his rule.
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