History YMMV / TheVampireChronicles

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Later books, starting with ''Memnoch the Devil'' have frequently gotten this reaction for their increasingly wild plots and ideas.

* {{Squick}}: Lestat and Gabrielle are shockingly comfortable with sharing passionate lovers-kisses the moment she's turned into a vampire, considering [[ParentalIncest she's his]] [[OedipusComplex mother]]. Taken up to eleven when he slits his tongue [[HemoErotic so he can both feed and make out with her at the same time.]]

** Louis' gentlemanly personality extends so absurdly far, he taught Claudia [[ExpertInUnderwaterBasketWeaving the proper use of different silverware.]] Lestat's fond recollection of this fact could be taken as an affectionate WhatAnIdiot.

* MemeticMutation: Anne Rice's habit of suing fanfic writers (at least, in the days before fanfic became more mainstream and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn popped up) has led to "Anne Rice is gonna sue over this" and variants becoming something of a RunningGag in the fandom, especially among Millennial and Gen Z readers. You're most likely see it on shitposts, memes, or humorous meta posts relating to the books, especially if they're lampshading how ridiculous the canon can get. Once news of her death came out, it turned into "Anne can't sue me now!” The fact that they’re essentially celebrating a woman’s death for an incredibly petty reason is evidently lost on them.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[VampireMonarch Akasha]] was the first vampire ever made and also the evilest, being a selfish, nihilistic predator with a desire to dominate everyone else. She orders the massacre of Maharet and Mekare's village down to the last woman and child all so that she could obtain their spirit-summoning powers for herself, has them publicly raped and humiliated before her court, and finally sentences them to be mutilated and burned because she unfairly blamed them for the accident that turned her and her husband King Enkil into the [[MonsterProgenitor Mother and Father]]. It is worse in modern times, as she plans to execute almost every human male in the world in order to set up a paradise over which she will [[AGodAmI rule as a goddess]], flying around the globe and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotizing hundreds of women at a time into committing these murders]] while she watches. She massacres most of the vampires in the world and threatens to do the same to the lone survivors if they refuse to join her New World Order. She even drains her husband to death to take his powers and have Lestat as her new mate. Among the actions of [[BlackAndGrayMorality countless morally gray characters]] that appear within ''The Chronicles'', her crimes are a stark contrast that make it all the more apparent.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: A lot of the later books' issues (PurpleProse, having too many characters and plotlines to keep track of, a lack of anyone to really root for, the "rules" of the canon getting stretched, the series getting gradually weirder and weirder) are present in the generally-liked ''Quueen of the Damned'', and even a little bit in the first two books (especially the purple prose). It's just that those first three books, ''QOTD'' included, have enough going for them--compelling characters, good plotlines, interesting worldbuilding--to make up for those problems, while later books do not, at least for a significant portion of the fandom.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Lestat's response when Louis shouts at him for playing a spinet while his father is dying? BangingPotsAndPans like a 10-year old child.

** Lestat-- for all the terrible things he's done, you have to sympathize with him for being turned against his will. And while he's largely to blame for the HumiliationConga that begins when Claudia attacks him, it's still pretty intense.

** Regardless of ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and vampires being functionally UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}}, [[VampireLolitaArchetype Claudia]] and Louis' relationship is almost inherently unnerving as they discuss their mutual love while she's stuck in the body of a six-year old.

* {{Squick}}: Lestat and Gabrielle are shockingly comfortable with sharing passionate lovers-kisses the moment she's turned into a vampire, considering [[ParentalIncest she's his]] [[OedipusComplex mother]]. Taken UpToEleven when he slits his tongue [[HemoErotic so he can both feed and make out with her at the same time.]]

** In a similar vein, many readers are disturbed by fully adult vampires gushing over adolescent Armand’s beauty, especially since they often talk about how young and childlike he looks at the same time. Taken UpToEleven in “The Vampire Armand”, in which he has near-constant sex with older men at an even younger age.