Anne Rice

2003: Elton John announced that Elton John & long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin will write the score for a Broadway musical based on the Anne Rice novel The Vampire Lestat.

Howard Allen Frances O'Brien

Howard Allen Frances O'Brien did not return to horror until 1985 when Howard Allen Frances O'Brien wrote The Vampire Lestat, a sequel to Interview with the Vampire that focused on Louis' maker.

Jesse Reeves's life stories

Jesse Reeves's life stories were published as the novels Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.

by John Polidori

The Vampyre was written by John Polidori after three days trapped indoors with five other writers during 'the year without a Summer', a year when Europe and America were undergoing a severe climate aberration which forced everyone to stay indoors.

Richard Matheson

Nine years after 'Interview,' Richard Matheson published a sequel, 'The Vampire Lestat,' wherein Richard Matheson grabbed the reins of the narrative and told Richard Matheson's own origin story, all to the backdrop of Richard Matheson's new life in the 1980s as a world-famous rockstar.

Mary Shelley (then Mary Godwin), Mary Shelley's future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron (who was then having an affair with Mary’s step-sister, Claire Clairmont), and Mary Shelley's doctor John Polidori, who went on to write The Vampyr

The idea for the novel was famously hatched at a lakeside chateau in Switzerland, the Villa Diodati, in the late spring and early summer of 1816 by Mary Shelley (then Mary Godwin), Mary Shelley's future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron (who was then having an affair with Mary’s step-sister, Claire Clairmont), and Mary Shelley's doctor John Polidori, who went on to write The Vampyr.

of Alfred A. Knopf's own transformation

The Vampire Lestat tells us of Alfred A. Knopf's own transformation: Alfred A. Knopf's New Orleans childhood in a devout Catholic family, Alfred A. Knopf's falling-away from the Faith, Alfred A. Knopf's struggles as a writer, mother, and wife, Alfred A. Knopf's return to the Faith.

bizarre Franz Kafka's series of novels called the Vampire Chronicles

bizarre Franz Kafka's series of novels called the Vampire Chronicles started with Interview with the Vampire in 1976 and includes The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned.

the origin story of the infamous Lestat de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire

The Vampire Lestat is the origin story of the infamous Lestat de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire.

Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot won a Tony Award in 2000 for Billy Elliot's score of Aida, and Billy Elliot also wrote the music for the 2006 vampire-themed musical Lestat and was listed as a producer on the 2019 production of Next Fall on Broadway.

The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Wilde’s Dorian Gray, The Nightingale and the Rose, A House of Pomegranates, etc, and Ann Rice

The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Wilde’s Dorian Gray, The Nightingale and the Rose, A House of Pomegranates, etc, and Ann Rice’s Vampire Lestat books.

John William Polidon

Mary Shelley's friend, John William Polidon penned The Vampyre.

Bram Stoker

That’s when Bram Stoker began writing the story of the famous vampire.

The popular dramatist James Planché

The popular dramatist James Planché wrote The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles based upon Polidori's novella, premiering Polidori's novella at the Lyceum Theatre in London on August 9th, 1820.

by author Maighread MacKay

the vampire is suitable for the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Maighread MacKay.

Stephenie Meyer

This name is very popular in countries such as Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, England and Wales, but it reached greater popularity in countries like the United States and Canada after Stephenie Meyer wrote the saga of vampires which included a character named Esme Cullen.

the English melodramatist James Planché as The Vampire

This, in turn, was adapted by the English melodramatist James Planché as The Vampire; or, the Bride of the Isles (1820) at the Lyceum (then called the English Opera House), also set in Scotland.

by James Robinson Planche

The Vampire, a play, formally known as 'The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles', was written by James Robinson Planche.

Frankenstein and Jonathan Polidori

In the stylings of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Jonathan Polidori’s The Vampyre, this Victorian adventure follows Friedrich and Friedrich's band of four friends, as these five young scholars debunk the supernatural in 1839.

Rudyard Kipling

In the very year when Bram Stoker published the novel Dracula, Rudyard Kipling published 'The Vampire,' which was inspired by Philip Burne-Jones's painting of the same name.