Watch: Trailer for AMC's 'Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire' Drops

No doubt fans of the late Anne Rice are looking forward to the upcoming AMC adaptation of her novel "Interview with a Vampire," now retitled "Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire," when it premieres in October. And at ComicCon, the network released a teaser trailer for the series at a panel this past week.

Variety reports the cable channel confirmed the series will debut Sunday, October 2 at 10 p.m., immediately following the return of the final season of "The Walking Dead," with the series' first two episodes available on AMC+ that same night.

Rice's gothic novel was published in 1976, introducing to the world the stormy relationship between 200-year-old vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac and his ancient mentor in the dark arts, Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat turned Louis into a vampire in the early 1800s New Orleans, and the novel follows their homoerotic relationship, as well as one with their 10-year-old vampire "daughter" Claudia.

"The book became the first in a series of novels – known as 'The Vampire Chronicles' – centering primarily on Lestat, and would be adapted into a critically acclaimed and financially successful film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst," writes Variety.

For the AMC series, the novel is modernized with Eric Bogosian playing a podcaster interviewing Louis, played by "Game of Thrones" star Jacob Anderson, for a podcast. In addition to Anderson, Sam Reid will star as Lestat, while Bailey Bass portrays Claudia. Rolin Jones adapted the book to television and serves as the showrunner for the project, and executive produces with Mark Johnson and Alan Taylor, who will direct the first two episodes of the gothic horror story.

People reports the trailer opens with Louis banging on the door of a church in the pouring rain, pleading: ""He's in my head, Father."

He adds that Lestat was stalking him, goading him for being marginalized as a Black man in 19th century New Orleans. "I've been watching you for some time now, Louis," Lestat says at a dinner table. "I could swap this life of shame. Swap it out for a dark gift."

But Louis's intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat's newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement, the press release continues.

For the new version, Louis's story is updated a century to the year 1910 and finds Louis running a number of "diversified activities," including what appears to be a classy brothel.

The Advocate reports that Rice's gay son, Christopher Rice, will executive produce the series as well as another Rice adaptation set to premiere on AMC, "Lives of the Mayfair Witches." Anne Rice had been set to also executive produce both of the series before her death last year.

"Her books about vampires and other supernatural beings were noted for their homoeroticism. She told The Advocate in 2000 that the homoeroticism in her books developed organically."

"It's important to me as a writer to let everything come spontaneously and not think too much about it," she said. "I don't sit down and think, I'm going to write about gay characters or I'm going to write about a homoerotic theme. It just keeps happening in my work pretty naturally."