Interview with the Vampire characters

Appears from the start

The vampire who narrates the novel, recounting his life across two centuries to a young interviewer. Once a young Louisiana plantation owner in the late eighteenth century, he was plunged into despair by the death of his brother before being transformed into a vampire. Introspective, guilt-ridden, and unable to shed his human conscience, he agonizes over the killing his new nature demands and searches endlessly for meaning in his cursed immortality. His sorrowful, questioning voice frames the entire story.

Appears from the start

The charismatic, worldly vampire who transforms Louis and becomes his companion and maker. Elegant, cruel, and hungry for pleasure and dominance, he revels in the vampire nature that torments Louis, and he keeps his fledgling bound to him through need, manipulation, and shared secrets. Bold and theatrical, he is as seductive as he is dangerous, and his hold over Louis shapes the early course of the tale.

Appears from the start

A young child, only about five years old, whom Louis and Lestat transform into a vampire, binding the three of them into a strange family. Frozen forever in the body of a little girl even as her mind matures across the years, she becomes a beautiful, uncanny figure, cherished by Louis as a daughter and companion. The impossible gap between her ageless child's form and her growing adult intelligence defines her from the moment she is made.

Appears from the start

An ancient, boyish-looking vampire who leads a coven based at a theater in Paris, where vampires perform their true nature disguised as stagecraft before human audiences. Centuries old and eerily calm, he possesses great power and a magnetic, unreadable presence. When Louis encounters him in his search for others of his kind, Armand draws the grieving vampire toward him with the promise of understanding and connection.

Appears from the start

A young reporter in modern-day San Francisco to whom Louis tells his entire life story over the course of a single night, recording it on tape. Curious and increasingly spellbound, he serves as the reader's stand-in, prompting Louis with questions and reacting to the strange, tragic account of immortality he is being given.