The Vampire Lestat has seduced fans around the world with his eye-popping antics. But this obsession with hot vamps goes way beyond forbidden love, bare chests and a taste for LSD-laced blood

Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience

With 2024 is set to be the year of the witch, writers are replacing the traditional image with sassy, sexy and dark characters

A hit-and-miss adaptation of the 1976 novel has replaced the homoeroticism of the 1994 movie with explicit sex

2 January 1993 The vampire, continually being re-interpreted and renewed, can be incorporated into almost any sexual fantasy

With the Wolf Hall novelist set to finish her trilogy in 2020, Philip Pullman, Anne Rice and others discuss how expectations can affect the creative process

Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson; The Pale Ones by Bartholomew Bennett; Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker; I Always Find You by John Ajvide Lindqvist; and Blood Communion by Anne Rice

To mark the Tennessee Williams New Orleans literary festival, Susan Larson walks us through the essential literature to understand the city – from classics to accounts of life after Katrina