Fans of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles know its world contains a wide range of vampire types . Interview With the Vampire ‘s third season, retitled The Vampire Lestat , will give us a rock n’ roll creature of the night when it arrives next year. But AMC’s latest Anne Rice series, Talamasca: The Secret Order , has its own offbeat vampire variation in Jason Schwartzman’s character, Burton.

The show’s main character, Guy (Nicholas Denton), is a new recruit into the Talamasca. He’s startled by his first meeting with Burton, an “unexpected vampire,” according to co-showrunner John Lee Hancock. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , Hancock explained why the show wanted the offbeat character to stand out.

“We’ve got this skeptic [Guy]

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