Okay I know this is not really for this sub since it’s for book suggestions…
But if you haven’t seen it, the AMC TV show of Interview With The Vampire will absolutely give you those vibes (specifically the TV show not the film). They shifted the story to start in 1910 NOLA rather than the late 1700s. And they also made Louis Creole and then very much do *not* ignore race as a theme in the show and they sorta filter the book’s plot through that lens. I always say, as Romeo and Juliet is to West Side Story, Interview With The Vampire the book is to the TV show. All the major plot points are there but it’s been recontextualized with the new time period and backdrop. So it’ll give you vampires, early Jazz and blues music, southern gothic richness, racial politics. It’s truly excellent.
As for books, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Blackwater Saga, Beloved, The Devil All The Time…
For something a bit more pulpy but Southern Gothic…
Charlaine Harris’s Southern Mystery Series (which is what True Blood is based on).
I also think Grady Hendrix’s most recent book Witchcraft for Wayward Girls would also really scratch the itch.
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Okay I know this is not really for this sub since it’s for book suggestions…
But if you haven’t seen it, the AMC TV show of Interview With The Vampire will absolutely give you those vibes (specifically the TV show not the film). They shifted the story to start in 1910 NOLA rather than the late 1700s. And they also made Louis Creole and then very much do *not* ignore race as a theme in the show and they sorta filter the book’s plot through that lens. I always say, as Romeo and Juliet is to West Side Story, Interview With The Vampire the book is to the TV show. All the major plot points are there but it’s been recontextualized with the new time period and backdrop. So it’ll give you vampires, early Jazz and blues music, southern gothic richness, racial politics. It’s truly excellent.
As for books, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Blackwater Saga, Beloved, The Devil All The Time…
For something a bit more pulpy but Southern Gothic…
Charlaine Harris’s Southern Mystery Series (which is what True Blood is based on).
I also think Grady Hendrix’s most recent book Witchcraft for Wayward Girls would also really scratch the itch.