Sept. 12, 2025

This Day in Halloween: Anne Rice's third novel in the Vampire Chronicles "The Queen of The Damned" is published in 1988. / Illustration by SA Hart

The Queen of The Damned is published in 1988. Anne Rice’s third novel in what comes to be known as The Vampire Chronicles, the novel follows Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire LeStat and is the second of the series to also become a film.