Cain's Literature of Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-fi Blog

So I have never read the book "Interview with a Vampire". I have heard of the book and the not so unknown movie to follow. Though I personally have never seen nor read it. So sitting down on the near flooded day to listen to the novel I was excited to give it a shot. The occult has always been fascinating to me- I have done extensive research into it just being a fascinating topic all around. First thing I would like to say about this book and to those who take the time to read this. If you are in an abusive relationship or encounter someone as cruel and vengeful as Lestat is in this book- run. Just turn around from wherever you are and head the other way because NO ONE needs that in anyone's life. This book was extraordinarily well written for all of its characters in my opinion because it really does push the loneliness factor that immortality could hold while also establishing how far away from humanity one can go once we give that up. So before reading this book,

It has been quite some time since I dusted off the jacket of Gothic literature. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. A book that, of itself, is held in such high regard as one of the central pillars of horror writing. The characterization of a gothic story is to put it shortly: a suffering heroine and supernatural occurrences. There are many Gothic themes other than these two- but these make up the central pillars in what is a gothic story. Mary Shelly uses these themes to craft this story by setting the story in this atmosphere but infuse a sense of foreboding dread throughout the piece.  Frankenstein's theme in its entirety is Gothic. The story begins with a number of letters written by Walton to his sister on his voyage. With the meeting of Frankenstein's monster. This establishes passion-driven, willful villain-hero and his pursuit of creation and also death, decay, darkness, and madness with supernatural overtones. This directly adheres to gothic themes as the story continu