Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral. I had to leave'
The Interview with the Vampire author on her rejection of her Catholic faith – and her fascination with sex and immortalityAnne Rice was 34 when she wrote Interview with the Vampire, set in her native...
View ArticleAnne Rice takes a bite out of Stephenie Meyer's sparkling Twilight vampires
Interview With the Vampire author attracts ire of Twilight fans by knocking Meyer's high school-attending, shimmering immortalsJust in time for Halloween, queen of vampire fiction Anne Rice has...
View ArticleScience fiction roundup – reviews
The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, Age of Aztec by James Lovegrove, The Return Man by VM Zito and Pure by Julianna BaggottThe Wolf Gift by Anne Rice (Chatto & Windus, £18.99)Reuben Golding, a young,...
View ArticleI Am Legend is named vampire novel of the century
Richard Matheson's 1954 novel bats off competition from Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire to win one-off Bram Stoker prizeApologies to Stephenie Meyer and her sparkly crew of vampires; bad luck to...
View ArticleAnne Rice backs equal rights for women to enjoy erotica
Writer of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, which is being re-released after the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, says women have just as much right as men to enjoy sexual fantasiesAs Anne Rice's erotic...
View ArticleMaeve Binchy: a big-hearted guide to friendship, love and loss
Authors from Anne Rice to Ian Rankin are lining up to mourn the death of Maeve Binchy on Twitter, and I agree: the world has lost one of its warmest writersSad news arrived late on Monday night. The...
View ArticleFrom Lestat to Harry Potter: which characters should be resurrected?
As Anne Rice and JK Rowling tease fans about bringing back two much-loved characters, are there any fictional heroes you'd like to see return to the page?Anne Rice has been teasing fans of her...
View ArticleAnne Rice signs petition to protest bullying of authors on Amazon
Almost 1,000 signatories – to include Rice and a number of other authors – are taking a stand against comments that are 'gratuitously destructive towards the creative community'Anne Rice has tackled...
View ArticleAnne Rice revives much-loved vampire for new novel Prince Lestat
Interview with the Vampire author brings back her anti-hero after more than a decadeLestat, the blood-sucking anti-hero who made his first appearance in Interview with the Vampire almost 40 years ago...
View ArticleUniversal buys rights to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles book series
Film studio invests in vampire series as part of its larger plan to resurrect monster movie genreFilm quiz: VampiresUniversal to reanimate old-school movie monsters, from Frankenstein to the Invisible...
View ArticleQ&A: Anne Rice
‘I settle in a recliner every evening with a Diet Coke, to watch the best TV I can find’Born in New Orleans, Rice, 73, wrote The Vampire Chronicles. The series started with her 1976 book, Interview...
View ArticlePrince Lestat by Anne Rice review – blood drinkers with iPhones
Rice’s vampires take on the digital age but have they bitten off more than they can chew?Bloodsucking is not a free ride. The drawbacks of being a vampire extend beyond draughty castles, unsociable...
View ArticleReading American cities: books about New Orleans
To mark the Tennessee Williams New Orleans literary festival, Susan Larson walks us through the essential literature to understand the city – from classics to accounts of life after Katrina Your...
View ArticleAnne Rice hits out at 'internet lynch mobs' attacking controversial books
Interview With the Vampire author says attempts to ‘take down’ Kate Breslin’s concentration camp romance with bad Amazon reviews amount to censorshipThe bestselling novelist Anne Rice, author of...
View ArticleAnne Rice finds there's still life in Lestat with a new vampire novel
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, described by the author as ‘one of my greatest personal adventures’, is due out in NovemberAnne Rice is set to reveal her vision of the lost realm of Atlantis...
View ArticleThe best recent SF, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson; The Pale Ones by Bartholomew Bennett; Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker; I Always Find You by John Ajvide Lindqvist; and Blood Communion by Anne...
View ArticleWatched plots … Hilary Mantel and the writers under pressure from fans
With the Wolf Hall novelist set to finish her trilogy in 2020, Philip Pullman, Anne Rice and others discuss how expectations can affect the creative processPhilip Pullman waited 17 years before...
View ArticleWomen's love affair with the vampire – archive, 2 January 1993
2 January 1993 The vampire, continually being re-interpreted and renewed, can be incorporated into almost any sexual fantasyFrancis Ford Coppola has underlined the peculiar timeliness of the Dracula...
View ArticleThe return of the bonkbuster: how horny heroines are starting a new sexual...
I longed for novels about female desire - women empowered by sex and their expressions of lust. So I sat down and wrote my ownThe idea for my novel Insatiableemerged from a simple question: where were...
View ArticleAnne Rice, author of Interview With the Vampire, dies aged 80
Horror writers pay tribute after bestselling gothic novelist dies of complications from strokeAnne Rice, the bestselling author of Interview With the Vampire, has died at the age of 80.The gothic...
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