‘Interview With a Vampire’ Meets ‘Bridgerton’ in this 2025 Horror Masterpiece

V. E. Schwab’s 2025 novel *Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil* is described as a spiritual successor to *Interview with the Vampire*, using familiar themes of queer love, unreliable narrators and immortal loneliness to tell an original story. Its shifting timelines and concealed motives build suspense while exploring how eternal hunger gradually strips vampires of their humanity.

The story follows three narrators across centuries, including Maria, who escapes a restrictive 16th-century Spanish marriage by becoming a vampire, and Charlotte, drawn into Regency London’s balls and suitors. The novel’s relationships are marked by obsession and the fear that immortality will turn loved ones into monsters; its settings range from Venice to modern times, and one storyline is likened to *Bridgerton* with a secretly vampiric Lady Danbury.