![]() Rife with it’s own folklore and magic, New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana provide the perfect gothic playground for many of Rice’s novels. ![]() Through her wide repertoire spanning 40+ books across 40+ years, Rice introduced us to vampires, devils, angels, demons, witches, body thieves, and ancient tribes, all while setting us up for a love affair with her native New Orleans. Thanks to the person with a passion for reading vampire books and then donating them to the Goodwill, I was able to spend years immersed in the deliciously wicked worlds Rice created. Her stories changed my expectations for what a good book was and started a life long obsession with gothic literature, vampires and binge reading. ![]() (what is it about teenage girls and vampires?) Reading Rice was way above my experience level and introduced an entire world of literature I didn’t know existed. I stumbled across The Vampire Lestat in high school, while perusing Goodwill for books. ![]() She was also well for her erotic novels and ironically enough, her Christian literature. Best known in the mainstream world for Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned, which were turned into movies, Rice was a pioneer in the vampire genre. ![]() Anne Rice, the famous gothic writer from New Orleans has passed. ![]()
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