Haunted Places in Utah: Are They for Real?

Every October as I pull out my fake cobwebs, three foot spider, and an array of skeletons from my closet (no pun intended), I also like to wipe the dust off of any literature that gives me to heeby-jeebies. For book club, we do the same. In the past we have given ourselves nightmares by reading books like The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, Blood Moon by Teri Harman, Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, and Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice.

Now, I'm not one to fall for staged sightings of UFO's and I'm rarely scared by the Halloween haunted forests that come 'a callin' every October (though the Haunted Forest in American Fork did once make me scream). But, I'm not going to lie and say I haven't felt something akin to the paranormal before. 

Ever been in a place and felt your skin crawl or a rush of air when no windows were open? What about the strange feeling that someone was watching you? If you haven't had any of these feelings or sensations, you owe it to yourself this October to experience the paranormal. Let's take Utah: are there really haunted places in our own backyard? You be the judge.

"Interview with the Vampire" {by Anne Rice} Book Review

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Interview with the Vampire

Author: Anne Rice

# of Pages: 343

Year Published: 1976

Publisher: Knopf

Genre: Fantasy

Summary:

In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.

Our Rating...

"Interview with the Vampire" {by Anne Rice} Book Club Ideas

We may not have rating "Interview with a Vampire" with very high reviews but that doesn't mean we didn't LOVE playing up the VAMPIRE theme of the book in every way possible way!

See for yourself...

"Interview with the Vampire" {by Anne Rice} Movie Pictures

I thought it would be fun to post some of the photos from the Interview with the Vampire movie while your reading along. That way, you can envision yourself sandwiched in between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise while your finishing you reading.
(No... Just me?)

Christian Slater plays "The Boy" who interviews Louis (Brad Pitt)

The ENTIRE Vampire Chronicles, in case you were wondering

Vampire Chronicles is a series of 10, count them, 10 novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century.

When I started reading "Interview with the Vampire" I only knew of the first three books (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned), but after doing a little research discovered that this series has been going on for 34 years!

The picture above shows ALL the books in the series in the correct order if you are interested in reading through the entire chronicles but I warn you, that mean you would be reading over 4232 pages of vampire lore and history!

Are you up to the task?

(Maybe I'll read them over the course of the next 34 years, that's fair right?)