Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice

Author:Anne Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Ghost, Occult, Vampires, Fantasy, Horror tales, Horror, Fiction - Horror, General, Psychological, Imaginary interviews, Horror - General, Lestat (Fictitious character), Horror fiction, Modern fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345337665
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 1977-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

"I looked at him, but I wasn't seeing him at all. I was seeing this woman in her grave with the head severed, and I was feeling the most keen revulsion inside myself, as if a hand were pressing on my throat and my insides were coming up inside me and I couldn't breathe. Then I felt Claudia's lip against my wrist She was staring at Morgan, and apparently she had been for some time.

"Slowly Morgan looked up at me, his eyes wild. `It's what they want to do with her,' he said. `With Emily! Well I won't let them.' He shook his head adamantly. `I won't let them. You've got to help me, Louis.' His lips were trembling, and his face so distorted now by his sudden desperation that I might have recoiled from it despite myself. `The same blood flows in our veins, you and I. I mean, French, English, we're civilized men, Louis. They're savages!'

"`Try to be calm now, Morgan,' I said, reaching out for him. `I want you to tell me what happened then. You and Emily. '

"He was struggling for his bottle. I drew it out of his pocket, and he took off the cap. `That's a fellow, Louis; that's a friend,' he said emphatically. `You see, I took her away fast. They were going to burn that corpse right there in the cemetery; and Emily was not to see that, not while I...' He shook his head `There wasn't a carriage to be found that would take us out of here; not a single one of them would leave now for the two days' drive to get us to a decent place!'

"`But how did they explain it to you, Morgan?' insisted. I could see he did not have much time left.

"`Vampires!' he burst out, the whiskey sloshing on his hand. `Vampires, Louis. Can you believe that!' And he gestured to the door with the bottle. 'A plague of vampires! All this in whispers, as if the devil himself were listening at the door! Of course, God have mercy, they put a stop to it. That unfortunate woman in the cemetery, they'd stopped her from clawing her way up nightly to feed on the rest of us!' He put the bottle to his lips. `Oh... God...' he moaned.

"I watched him drink, patiently waiting.

"`And Emily...' he continued. `She thought it fascinating. What with the fire out there and a decent dinner and a proper glass of wine. She hadn't seen that woman! She hadn't seen what they'd done,' he said desperately. `Oh, I wanted to get out of here; I offered them money. "If it's over," I kept saying to them, "one of you ought to want this money, a small fortune just to drive us out of here."'

" But it wasn't over... ' I whispered.

"And I could see the tears gathering in his eyes, his mouth twisting with pain.

"`How did it happen to her?' I asked him.

"`I don't know,' he gasped, shaking his head, the flask pressed to his forehead as if it were something cool, refreshing, when it was not.

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