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This paper examines vampire literature and its preoccupation with polymorphous sexuality, homosexuality, gender, compulsory heterosexuality and Christianity. It primarily focuses on Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" ("Interview with a Vampire") and Bram Stoker's "Dracula".

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"Anne Rice's debut novel, Interview with the Vampire, presented the moral agony of Louis de Pointe du Lac, the young American French Catholic vampire from New Orleans who had been created by an older and more cynical French vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt. His life story, as told to a young journalist, not only describes life with his maker and especially Lestat's other creature, the six-year-old Claudia, but does so from the perspective of an anguished person who experiences typical vampire blood lust, but cannot bear to take human life. While other vampires in literature, including Lestat, have embraced their evil and murderous natures without conscience, Anne Rice was the first to show the moral ambivalence a fledgling vampire might feel."

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