Name: Daniel Malloy
Date of Birth: 1955
Place of Birth: Unknown
Date Brought into Darkness: 1985 at the age of 30
Place Brought into Darkness: On Armand's private jet traveling from Chicago to San Francisco.
Maker: Armand
Chronicled Appearances: Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, mentioned in The Vampire Armand
Fledglings: None
Description: The reporter from a San Francisco radio station who records Louis' confession about being a vampire and publishes it under the pseudonym Anne Rice, as Interview with the Vampire. Tall and slender, with violet eyes and a beautiful face, Daniel is about 20 years old when he meets Louis, for he is 32 at the time of Lestat's rock concert. After Louis' tale, Daniel chides Louis for not seeing what a wonderful gift it is to be a vampire. Louis bites him and leaves him in the room unconscious, but when Daniel wakes, he listens to his tapes for clues about Lestat's location, then heads to New Orleans. Louis' bite has left him with obsessive dreams of immortality, which attracts Armand.
The ten-year relationship between Armand and Daniel is the epitomy of the fluctuations of dominance and submission. Each struggles for both surrender and control. Armand likes to be dominated and wants a teacher, although he is in fact a powerful vampire who can torment and even kill Daniel at will. When Daniel feels strong, he walks away from the relationship, but inevitably he disintegrates and surrenders to Armand, who is always ready to come and get him. They play a game, for each has something the other wants. Daniel describes himself as a mortal slave, the "Devil's Minion," but Armand is as much a slave to him. When it becomes clear that Daniel is dying, Armand cannot face existance without him and, against his better judgement, gives in to Daniel's demand and makes him a vampire.*
Christian Slater plays Daniel Malloy in the 1992 film Interview with the Vampire
*Ramsland, Katherine. The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. Ballantine: New York. 1995. Page 303-304.
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