And you've become an in-house expert on this universe and you really enjoy it, right? But at the same time, you know, it inhabits this kind of, well, maybe you tell us, does it inhabit this kind of pop space, this schlocky space? Talk to us about it.

It's impossible to talk about Anne Rice and genre without confronting the fact that the Vampire Chronicles did start out as a 15 book series.

I started reading the Vampire Chronicles when I was about 13 or 14.

There were, I think at the time, the first four or five of the books were out.

Alfred A. Knopf was the publisher that brought out most of the hardcover first editions in her Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches books.

And then later on, it was Valentine, I think, that was doing the paperback reissues.

But my mother took one look at this and thought, oh, my kid reads fantasy and witchy and historical.

And I'm like,