Interview With the Vampire, centering on vampires Louis and Lestat. It received poor reviews but was a hit with readers, and it was made into a popular 1994 film starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, directed by Neil Jordan.
It is now being developed as a TV series by AMC. The latest book in the series, Blood Communion, was published in 2018.Her books about vampires and other supernatural beings were noted for their homoeroticism, although vampires don’t have sex with each other.
She told The Advocate in 2000 that the homoeroticism developed organically in her books.“It’s important to me as a writer to let everything come spontaneously and not think too much about it,” she said. “I don’t sit down and think, I’m going to write about gay.