‘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.
- V. E. Schwab’s novel reworks classic vampire themes across centuries.
- Three unreliable narrators’ lives intertwine through shifting timelines.
- Immortality brings loneliness, obsession and the loss of humanity.
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V. E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a 2025 novel about vampires, told through three narrators and across several centuries. It moves between places including Venice and London, linking the characters’ lives through shifting timelines and hidden motives.
One narrator, Maria, becomes a vampire after escaping a restrictive marriage in 16th-century Spain. Another, Charlotte, enters Regency London society, where balls and courtship unfold alongside the threat of vampirism. The novel draws on Gothic fiction, a tradition that uses suspense and the uncanny to explore fear and desire.
The story also explores queer love, obsession and the loneliness of living for centuries. Its vampires face a conflict between their hunger and their connections to other people, raising questions about how immortality might change those relationships.