Interviewing the Author of Interview with the Vampire

“Coven of the Articulate”: Orality and Community in Anne Rice's Vampire Fiction

“…Vampiric figures are often read as representative of male homosexual subjectivities: Richard Dyer, for example, identifies several key tropes of vampire fiction which map neatly onto homosexual experience in a hostile culture (64). Rice herself has often identified personally with male‐male desire (Ramsland, Prism 348, Shelton 9, Mulvey‐Roberts 173), and her writing has always been noteworthy for the passionate relationships between male vampires (Liberman 109, Haggerty 185–86, Benefiel 262). George Haggerty, for example, persuasively argues that all the male vampires of the Chronicles “must be read as gay” (186).…”