In a remote room in a large city, a young reporter sits face-to-face with his most astonishing subject: a onetime New Orleans gentleman plantation owner who, in vividly terrifying and haunting detail, recalls his centuries of extraordinary life–beginning with his initiation into the ranks of the living dead at the hands of the sinister, sensual vampire Lestat.

In a remote room in a large city, a young reporter sits face-to-face with his most astonishing subject: a onetime New Orleans gentleman plantation owner who, in vividly terrifying and haunting detail, recalls his centuries of extraordinary life–beginning with his initiation into the ranks of the living dead at the hands of the sinister, sensual vampire Lestat.