Originally Posted by
Ragdoll
Before starting my Anne Rice binge, my only real experience with vampire stories was being obsessed with Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel back in middle school and the occasional horror novel ('Salems Lot). When Twilight blew up, it gave me the wrong impression (or maybe the right one) of what the rest of vampire media was all about and I avoided vampire stuff like the plague. I read Interview With A Vampire after the TV show American Horror Story: Hotel aired, which heavily featured vampires. When I asked people for more vampire stuff like AHS: Hotel, everyone said Anne Rice's books were the closest, and now I'm hooked on these insanely lengthy depictions of debauchery.
And back in the day, religious groups protested Buffy because she had sex with a 200 year old at age 17. That is essentially why I assumed Anne Rice must have suffered similar backlash., since Rice uses far younger characters than Buffy ever was. Anyways, I'm glad we live in the era where books and TV shows don;t get massive protests against them any longer. What even was that crap?