Development
Anne Rice based her novel Interview with the Vampire on a short story of the same name which she wrote in 1968 or 1969. Thirty pages long, the short story was written from the interviewer's perspective. In 1973, she decided to expand "Interview with the Vampire" into a novel at the encouragement of one of her husband's students who enjoyed her writing. It took her five weeks to complete the 338-page novel: she did research on vampires during the day and often wrote during the night.
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