Interview with the Vampire

This was pure gothic-vampire horror but presented in a way the characters all had human emotions and interpersonal problems. The imagery used throughout the entire story is very descriptive and detailed. The tone of the story is dark, creepy, gothic and sensual.
This is a book about the kind of vampires who slowly erode over the centuries, whose humanity gently withers and dies, whose good intentions gradually give way to the monster inside. It's a story about the battle with hunger, and how on a long enough timeline, the hunger always wins.
It's a book about immortality. Scouring off the glimmering sheen that lies in the ideal of living forever, and exploring the crushing reality of a life unending. Watching everything you knew, the world in which you grew up, washed away one decade at a time. Watching all the things you knew and love wither and fade, while you remain, changeless and deathless, with only the monster inside you for company. It takes the romance of vampirism, an ideal that so many people are in love with, and strips it back to the ugly, parasitic truth.
Anne Rice's writing flows gently across the page, establishing each scene and how it feels. The melancholy, violence, anger, and other intense emotions that play across the book's pages are all displayed beautifully.