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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 287 – The Vampire Lestat

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

We’re crawling out of our coffins and we’re doing just fine. We were joined by Rebecca Mahoney, author of Thrall, to discuss The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. Please do not play this episode in the presence of Akasha, Queen of the Damned–the audio waves will only agitate her.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: Thrall Book Launch event at Porter Square Books on April 24th

Episode 125 – Interview With the Vampire

Savage Garden on Wikipedia

Lestat the Musical

Coming up next: Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the vampires interview with himself, so you don't have to.

0:20.3

I'm Renata.

0:21.4

And I'm Kate.

0:22.6

And for this episode, we read The Vampire Listott by Anne Rice.

0:27.0

Joining us to discuss this very wordy sequel to the interview with the vampire is Rebecca Mahoney, author of Therall.

0:36.4

Thank you so much for having me.

0:38.7

Welcome back to the podcast.

0:40.2

So happy to have you.

0:41.6

Thank you.

0:41.9

I love it here.

0:43.6

You know, Becky's a returning guests, returning author.

0:47.0

But her upcoming book Therall is about vampires.

0:51.9

And so this is a good, good reminder that there's all kinds of different ways to

0:58.6

write about vampires.

1:00.5

And some of them are not good.

1:05.2

Some of them are not our cup of tea or of blood.

1:10.7

Ooh, I think I'm going to be the sole person in the tank for this book.

1:15.4

I know. And I'm happy you're here for multiple reasons.

1:20.0

But yeah, so this is the sequel, like I just said, to interview interview with the vampire which we did as one of our

1:29.4

first live shows is episode 125 uh and I went back and re-listened an episode because I didn't

1:37.8

really remember anything about the book and first of all the audio quality is really bad so I'm

1:42.8

so sorry uh to anyone who listened to that in podcast version.

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