Brother of Roger (one of Lestat’s most important victims in Memnoch the Devil) and uncle of Dora (one of Lestat’s most beloved mortals), Uncle Mickey is a tout for a bookie in New Orleans. One day, succumbing to greed, instead of placing a bet for his bookie, he decides to keep the money for himself, hoping to inform the bookie that the horse lost. To his dismay, the horse wins. In a rage, the bookie sends gangsters who pummel Mickey and kick out his eye. As Mickey’s eye lies on the pavement, the gangsters step on it, squashing it completely.
This story foreshadows Lestat’s predicament when he confronts Memnoch the Devil and loses his own eye. Fortunately, unlike Uncle Mickey, who must wear a glass eye until he dies at the age of fifty, Memnoch returns Lestat’s eye, which Lestat promptly places back into his empty eye socket.
Uncle Mickey appears in Memnoch the Devil (1995). For more perspectives on Uncle Mickey in the Vampire Chronicles, read the Alphabettery entries Dora, Lestat de Lioncourt, and Memnoch.