This episode is brought to you by Villains, a Parcast Original. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Villains, free on Spotify!  Lestat de Lioncourt is the roguish vampire anti-hero of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Nicknamed the “Brat Prince”, he's vain, petulant, and has a hedonistic craving for blood. But it's not bloodlust that drives Lestat's unique villainy. It's loneliness. An isolation so desolate that it compels him to condemn others to an eternity of suffering, simply to keep him company.