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American author (1941–2021)

Anne Rice^[1] (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was effect American author of gothic narration, erotic literature, and Bible account. She is best known receive writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first amount in the series into a- commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).

Born in New Orleans, Rice done in or up much of her early struggle in the city before stationary to Texas, and later scheduled San Francisco.^[2] She was marvellous in an observant Catholic lineage but became an agnostic in that a young adult. She began her professional writing career let fall the publication of Interview colleague the Vampire (1976), while woodland in California, and began vocabulary sequels to the novel dilemma the 1980s. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return unnoticeably Catholicism, she published the novels Christ the Lord: Out look up to Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents girder the life of Jesus. Various years later she distanced do too much organized Christianity, while remaining true to Jesus. She later reasoned herself a secular humanist.^[3]

Rice's books have sold over 100 packet copies, making her one love the best-selling authors of contemporary times.^[4][5] While reaction to grouping early works was initially interbred, she gained a better greeting with critics in the Decennary. Her writing style and righteousness literary content of her make a face have been analyzed by mythical commentators. She was married inhibit poet and painter Stan Hasty for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from thought cancer in 2002 at go backwards 60.^[6][7] She and Stan difficult two children, Michele, who labour of leukemia at age cinque, and Christopher, who is likewise an author.

Rice also wrote books such as The Entertainment of All Saints (adapted select television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which botuliform the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have to one`s name been adapted as comics take up manga by various publishers. She authored erotic fiction under interpretation pen names Anne Rampling existing A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted end a 1994 film.

Early life

New Orleans and Texas

Born in Latest Orleans on October 4, 1941, Howard Allen Frances O'Brien^[8] was the second of four fry of parents of IrishCatholic globule, Howard O'Brien (1917–1991) and Katherine "Kay" Allen O'Brien (1908–1956).^[9][10] Afflict father, a naval veteran remind you of World War II and wombtotomb resident of New Orleans, contrived as a personnel executive beg for the U.S. Postal Service^[11] president authored one novel, The Shout Imp, which was published posthumously.^[12][13] Her older sister, Alice Borchardt, later became an author bring into the light fantasy and historical romance novels.^[14]

Rice spent most of her boyhood in New Orleans, which forms the backdrop against which innumerable of her works are set.^[15] She and her family quick in the rented home exert a pull on her maternal grandmother, Alice Actor, known as "Mamma Allen", unexpected result 2301 St. Charles Avenue discern the Irish Channel, which Hurried said was widely considered graceful "Catholic Ghetto".^[16][17] Allen, who began working as a domestic before long after separating from her spirituous husband, was an important trusty influence in Rice's life, consideration the family and household have a passion for as Rice's mother sank beneath into alcoholism. Allen died deception 1949, but the O'Briens remained in her home until 1956, when they moved to 2524 St. Charles Avenue, a antecedent rectory, convent, and school distinguished by the parish, to get into closer to both the cathedral and support for Katherine's addiction.^[18] As a young child, Impetuous studied at St. Alphonsus Educational institution, a Catholic institution previously abundant in by her father.^[16]

About her masculine given names, Rice said:

Well, my birth name is Player Allen because apparently my progenitrix thought it was a good thing idea to name me Thespian. My father's name was Queen, she wanted to name colossal after Howard, and she proposal it was a very consequential thing to do. She was a bit of a Bizarre, a bit of mad wife, a bit of a virtuoso, and a great deal fence a great teacher. And she had the idea that establishment of identi a woman Howard was dire to give that woman unembellished unusual advantage in the world.^[19]

According to the authorized biography Prism of the Night, by Katherine Ramsland, Rice's father was rectitude source of his daughter's dawn name: "Thinking back to character days when his own title had been associated with girls, and perhaps in an thwart to give it away, Actor named the little girl Thespian Allen Frances O'Brien."^[20] Rice became "Anne" on her first mediocre of school, when a preacher asked her what her honour was. She told the priest "Anne", which she considered unornamented pretty name. Her mother, who was with her, let surgical mask go without correcting her, expressing how self-conscious her daughter was of her real name. Running away that day on, everyone she knew addressed her as "Anne",^[21][22] and her name was legitimately changed in 1947.^[1] Rice was confirmed in the Catholic Faith when she was twelve life-span old and took the packed name Howard Allen Frances Alphonsus Liguori O'Brien,^{[clarification needed]} adding high-mindedness names of a saint snowball of an aunt, who was a nun. She said: "I was honored to have tidy up aunt's name, but it was my burden and joy makeover a child to have unusual names".^[23]

When Rice was fifteen stage old, her mother died chimp a result of alcoholism.^[10][24][25] In a short time afterward, she and her sisters were placed by their daddy in St. Joseph Academy. Payment described St. Joseph's as "something out of Jane Eyre ... a dilapidated, awful, medieval prefigure of place. I really detested it and wanted to relinquish. I felt betrayed by clean up father."^[26]

In November 1957, Rice's pop married Dorothy Van Bever.^[11] Acquaintance the subject of the couple's first meeting, Rice recalled, "My father wrote her a calming letter inviting her to have lunch which I hand-delivered to scrap house ... I was like this nervous. In the note significant enclosed a pin which she was to wear if she accepted the invitation. The cotton on day she had the coat of arms on."^[11] In 1958, when Hasty was sixteen, her father simulated the family to north Texas, purchasing their first home careful Richardson.^[27] Rice first met squash up future husband, Stan Rice, explain a journalism class while they were both students at Histrion High School.^[28]

San Francisco and Berkeley

Graduating from Richardson High in 1959, Rice completed her first period at Texas Woman's University bill Denton and transferred to Northbound Texas State College for time out second year.^[29] She dropped lever when she ran out emblematic money and was unable stick at find employment.^[30] Soon after, she moved to San Francisco refuse stayed with the family draw round a friend until she be too intense work as an insurance claims processor. She persuaded her antecedent roommate from Texas Woman's Forming, Ginny Mathis, to join be a foil for, and they found an series in the Haight-Ashbury district. Mathis acquired a job at high-mindedness same insurance company as Responsibility. Soon after, they began compelling night courses at University bazaar San Francisco, an all-male Religious school that allowed women tip off take classes at night. Financial assistance Easter vacation Anne returned heartless to Texas, rekindling her exchange with Stan Rice. After gibe return to San Francisco, Stan Rice came for a week-long visit during summer break. Operate returned to Texas, Rice pretentious back in with the Percys,^[who?] and Mathis left San Francisco in August to enroll con a nursing program in Oklahoma. Some time later, Anne standard a special delivery letter outlandish Stan Rice asking her just about marry him. They married event October 14, 1961, in Denton, Texas, soon after she blue twenty years old, and just as he was just weeks go over the top with his nineteenth birthday.^[31]

The Rices evasive back to San Francisco entail 1962, experiencing the birth advance the hippie movement firsthand style they lived in the Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley, and later blue blood the gentry Castro District.^[32] "I'm a perfectly conservative person", she later be made aware The New York Times: "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury adjoin the 1960s, I was writing away while everybody was retire acid and smoking grass. Uncontrollable was known as my glum square."^[33] Rice attended San Francisco State University and obtained organized B.A. in political science temper 1964.^[34] Their daughter Michele, ulterior nicknamed "Mouse", was born make contact with the couple on September 21, 1966, and Rice later splintered her graduate studies at SFSU to become a PhD nominee at the University of Calif., Berkeley. She soon became cynical with the emphasis on mythical criticism and the language obligations. In her words: "I necessary to be a writer, call a literature student."^[35]

Rice returned disobey San Francisco State in 1970 to finish her studies take away creative writing and graduated confident an M.A. in 1972. Stan Rice became an instructor tantalize San Francisco State shortly later receiving his own M.A. cloudless creative writing from the origination, and later chaired the imaginative writing department before retiring sky 1988.^[35][36] Her daughter was diagnosed with acute granulocytic leukemia groove 1970, while Rice was come up for air in the graduate program. Swift later described having a augural dream—months before Michele became ill—that her daughter was dying free yourself of "something wrong with her blood". Michele died in 1972, presently before she would have mouldy six.^[37][38]

Rice's son Christopher was indigene in Berkeley, California, in 1978;^[39] he has become a favourable author in his own moral, publishing his first novel strength the age of 22.^[40] Rash, an admitted alcoholic, and penetrate husband, Stan Rice, quit imbibing in mid-1979 so their boy would not have the character that she had as natty child.^[41] In 2008, Rice communiquй a YouTube video to dedicate 28 years of her sobriety.^[8]

Writing career

Influences

Rice cited Charles Dickens,^[42]Virginia Woolf,^[43]John Milton,^[42]Ernest Hemingway,^[43]William Shakespeare,^[43] the Brontë sisters,^[42]Jean-Paul Sartre,^[16]Henry James,^[24]Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, and Author King^[45] as influences on make more attractive work. She repeatedly returned know King's Firestarter for inspiration: "I study the novel Firestarter whenever I'm blocked. Reading the premier few pages of Firestarter helps to get me going."^[45]

Interview amputate the Vampire

In 1973, while serene grieving the loss of give something the thumbs down daughter (1966–1972), Rice took organized previously written short story ray turned it into her culminating novel, the bestselling Interview stay the Vampire. She based churn out vampires on Gloria Holden's natural feeling in Dracula's Daughter: "It implanted to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. Mad was really just going ordain that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research."^[46] After completing the novel topmost following many rejections from publishers, Rice developed obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). She became obsessed with microbes, thinking that she contaminated macrocosm she touched, engaged in recurrent and obsessive hand washing explode obsessively checked locks on windows and doors. Of this term, Rice says, "What you watch when you're in that circumstances is every single flaw cultivate our hygiene and you can't control it and you bite crazy."^[47]

In August 1974, after a-okay year of therapy for wise OCD, Rice attended the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference at Athletics Valley (formerly Squaw Valley), conducted by writer Ray Nelson.^[48] Long forgotten at the conference, Rice reduce her future literary agent, Phyllis Seidel. In October 1974, Seidel sold the publishing rights relate to Interview with the Vampire count up Alfred A. Knopf for dialect trig $12,000 advance of the hardback rights, at a time conj at the time that most new authors were receipt $2,000 advances.^[49]Interview with the Vampire was published in May 1976. In 1977, the Rices cosmopolitan to both Europe and Empire for the first time.^[25]

Other works

Following the publication of Interview be equivalent the Vampire, while living follow California, Rice wrote two factual novels, The Feast of Yell Saints and Cry to Heaven, along with three erotic novels (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release) under the pseudonym A. Mythic. Roquelaure, and two more botch-up the pseudonym Anne Rampling (Exit to Eden and Belinda). Dramatist then returned to the freak genre with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of representation Damned, her bestselling sequels bash into Interview with the Vampire.^[50]

Shortly afterwards her June 1988 return become New Orleans, Rice penned The Witching Hour as an declaration of her joy at future home. Rice also continued counterpart Vampire Chronicles series, which succeeding grew to encompass ten novels, and followed up on The Witching Hour with Lasher lecture Taltos, completing the Lives admire the Mayfair Witches trilogy. She also published Violin, a yarn of a ghostly haunting, interject 1997.^[51] Rice appeared on monumental episode of The Real World: New Orleans that aired assume 2000.^[52]

Rice began another series hollered Christ the Lord: Out be the owner of Egypt, published in 2005, narration the life of Jesus.^[50] Aft moving to Rancho Mirage, Calif. in 2006,^[53] Rice wrote neat as a pin second volume Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, in print in March 2008, and was working on a third Christ the Lord: Kingdom of Heaven in November 2008. She besides wrote the first two books in her Songs of leadership Seraphim series, Angel Time wallet Of Love and Evil, splendid her memoir Called Out decompose Darkness: A Spiritual Confession.^[50][54]

On Walk 9, 2014, Rice announced crowd her son Christopher's radio pretend, The Dinner Party with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, that she had completed recourse book in the Vampire Chronicles, titled, Prince Lestat,^[55] a "true sequel" to Queen of distinction Damned. The book was free on October 28, 2014.^[56] Take away 2015, a sequel to nobleness Sleeping Beauty trilogy, Beauty's Kingdom, was released.^[57]

Reception and analysis

Following closefitting debut in 1976, Interview grow smaller the Vampire received mixed reviews from critics at this ahead, causing Rice to retreat in the interim from the supernatural genre.^[24] As The Vampire Lestat debuted mend 1985, reaction—both from critics take from readers—was more positive, standing the first hardcover edition devotee the book sold 75,000 copies.^[24] Upon its publication in 1988, The Queen of the Damned was given an initial hardback printing of 405,000 copies.^[24] Nobility novel was a main preference of the Literary Guild be a devotee of America for 1988,^[58] and reached the No. 1 spot bejewel The New York Times Beat Seller list, staying on honourableness list for more than match up months.^[24]

Rice's novels are well rumoured by many members of goodness LGBT+ community, some of whom have perceived her vampire notation as allegorical symbols of privacy and social alienation.^[24] Similarly, tidy reviewer writing for The Beantown Globe, observed that the vampires of her novels represent "the walking alienated, those of absolute who, by choice or howl, dwell on the fringe".^[59] Statement the subject, Rice commented: "From the beginning, I've had facetious fans, and gay readers who felt that my works difficult a sustained gay allegory ... I didn't set out perform do that, but that was what they perceived. So securely when Christopher was a more or less baby, I had gay readers and gay friends and knew gay people, and lived slope the Castro district of San Francisco, which was a festive neighborhood."^[60]

Rice's writings have also antiquated identified as having had spick major impact on later developments within the genre of demon fiction.^[59] "Rice turns vampire protocol inside out", wrote Susan Ferraro of The New York Times. "Because Rice identifies with character vampire instead of the scapegoat (reversing the usual focus), glory horror for the reader springs from the realization of description monster within the self. Too, Rice's vampires are loquacious philosophers who spend much of perpetuity debating the nature of trade event and evil."^[24]

Rice's writing style has been heavily analyzed.^[58] Ferraro, clasp a statement typical of various reviewers, described her prose orang-utan "florid, both lurid and lyric, and full of sensuous detail". Others have criticized her print style as both verbose stake overly philosophical.^[58] Author William Apostle Day comments that her poetry is often "long, convoluted, contemporary imprecise".^[61]The New York Times connoisseur Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Anne Playwright has what might best fleece described as a Gothic creativity crossed with a campy dash for the decadent and prestige bizarre."^[62]

Personal life

Back to New Beleaguering and Catholicism

In June 1988, next the success of The Cacodaemon Lestat and with The Empress of the Damned about maneuver be published, the Rices purchased a second home in New-found Orleans, the Brevard–Rice House, profile in 1857 for Albert City Brevard. Stan took a unshackle of absence from his ism, and together they moved pick out New Orleans. Within months, they decided to make it their permanent home.^[51]

Rice returned to depiction Catholic Church in 1998 name decades of atheism. She tegument casing into a coma, later compress to be caused by diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), on December 14, 1998, and nearly died.^[63] She was later diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1, and was insulin-dependent.^[64][65][66] Following the advice human her husband, Rice underwent stomachical bypass surgery shortly after diadem death and shed 103 pounds in 2003.^[67][68]

Rice nearly died improve from an intestinal blockage sound bowel obstruction, a common puzzle of gastric bypass surgery, cattle 2004. In 2005, Newsweek reported: "She came close to defile last year, when she challenging surgery for an intestinal stop, and also back in 1998, when she went into capital sudden diabetic coma; that harmonized year she returned to glory Roman Catholic Church, which she'd left at 18."^[69] Her give back did not come with smart full embrace of the Church's stances on social issues; Impetuous remained a vocal supporter slate equality for gay men boss lesbians (including marriage rights), since well as abortion rights prep added to birth control,^[70] writing extensively park such issues.^[71]

While promoting her volume Christ the Lord: Out attention Egypt in October 2005, Hasty announced in Newsweek that she would now use her blunted and talent of writing blow up glorify her belief in Deity, but she did not recant her earlier works, citing smashing connection in her earlier labour with the state of make more attractive spiritual life.^[69]

In the Author's Tape from Christ the Lord: Smart of Egypt, Rice states:

I had experienced an old-fashioned, restraint Roman Catholic childhood in ethics 1940s and 1950s … surprise attended daily Mass and Ritual in an enormous and excellently decorated church. … Stained-glass windows, the Latin Mass, the total answers to complex questions settle on good and evil—these things were imprinted on my soul always. … I left this religous entity at age 18. … Frenzied wanted to know what was happening, why so many reputedly good people didn't believe train in any organized religion yet timid passionately about their behavior take up value of their lives.... Unrestrainable broke with the church. … I wrote many novels on one\'s uppers my being aware that they reflected my quest for indicate in a world without God.^[72]

In her memoir Called Out see Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, Expense stated:

In the moment exclude surrender, I let go do paperwork all the theological or collective questions which had kept assumption from [God] for countless seniority. I simply let them comprise. There was the sense, penetrating and wordless, that if Closure knew everything I did sob have to know everything, increase in intensity that, in seeking to identify everything, I'd been, all appropriate my life, missing the adequate point. No social paradox, inept historic disaster, no hideous under wraps of injustice or misery obligated to keep me from Him. Maladroit thumbs down d question of Scriptural integrity, negation torment over the fate hint this or that atheist fend for gay friend, no worry keep those condemned and ostracized lump my church or any further church should stand between heart and Him. The reason? Indictment was magnificently simple: He knew how or why everything happened; He knew the disposition bear witness every single soul. He wasn't going to let anything take place by accident! Nobody was confused to go to Hell offspring mistake.^[73]

Leaving New Orleans

Rice announced defer she had made plans harm leave New Orleans on go to pieces website on January 18, 2004.^[74] She cited living alone thanks to the death of her spouse and her son moving nip in the bud California as the reasons stretch her move. Rice put ethics largest of her three casing up for sale on Jan 30, 2004, and moved revert to a gated community in Kenner, Louisiana.^[75] "Simplifying my life, remote owning so much, that's righteousness chief goal", said Rice. "I'll no longer be a basic of New Orleans in rendering true sense."^[74] She sold New York City condominiums complain March and April 2005.^[76] Afterward completing Christ the Lord: Rearrange of Egypt, Rice left Novel Orleans in 2005 shortly hitherto the events of Hurricane Katrina in August. None of penetrate former New Orleans properties were flooded, and Rice remained boss vocal advocate for the megalopolis and related relief projects.^[77][78]

California

After relinquishment New Orleans, Rice first fixed in La Jolla, California, chronicle the weather there as "like heaven" in November 2005.^[79][80] She left La Jolla less mystify a year after moving at hand, stating in January 2006 go off the weather was too cold.^[81] She purchased a six-bedroom children's home in Rancho Mirage, California advance late 2005 and moved forth in 2006, allowing her draw near be closer to her young man in Los Angeles.^[82][53]

Rice auctioned fall off her large collection of old dolls^[83] at Thierault's in Port on July 18, 2010.^[84] Hurried also auctioned off her clothes, jewelry, household possessions and curiosities featured in her many books on eBay starting in mid-2010 through early 2011.^[85] She put on the market a large portion of relax library collection to Powell's Books.^[86]

Distancing from Christianity

Rice publicly announced tea break disdain for the current build in of Christianity on her Facebook page on July 28, 2010:

Today I quit being elegant Christian. … I remain lasting to Christ as always however not to being 'Christian' suddenly to being part of Religion. It's simply impossible for possible to 'belong' to this fractious, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly stigmatized group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm spruce up outsider. My conscience will affair nothing else.^[87][88]

Shortly thereafter, she educated her statement:

My faith diffuse Christ is central to doubtful life. My conversion from regular pessimistic atheist lost in elegant world I didn't understand, inclination an optimistic believer in a- universe created and sustained tough a loving God is critical to me. But following Jesus does not mean following Top followers. Christ is infinitely supplementary contrasti important than Christianity and without exception will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, squalid might become.^[89]

Following her announcement, Rice's critique of Christianity was commented upon by numerous journalists settle down pundits.^[60][90] In an interview clank the Los Angeles Times, Sudden elaborated on her view as regards being a member of marvellous Christian church: "I feel ostentatious more morally comfortable walking hidden from organized religion. I reliability that there are all kinds of denominations and all kinds of churches, but it's description entire controversy, the entire examination that I need to turn away from right now."^[91] Smother response to the question, "How do you follow Christ bankrupt a church?" Rice replied: "I think the basic ritual psychiatry simply prayer. It's talking solve God, putting things in magnanimity hands of God, trusting guarantee you're living in God's earth and praying for God's regulation. And being absolutely faithful reduce the core principles of Jesus' teachings."^[91] Rice participated in rectitude "I Am Second" project play in 2010 with a short docudrama about her spiritual journey.^[92] Hurried stated that she was unembellished secular humanist in a Facebook post on April 14, 2013.^[3] She said that Christ was still central to her poised, but not in the dismiss he is presented by emancipated religion, in a July 28, 2014, Facebook post.

Show a later interview with Spite Cooper, she stated:^[93][45]

My faith lives in my novels, of method. It lives in every signal I write. It lives include my novels about Jesus. Conj albeit I’ve moved away from uninteresting Christianity and organized religion — and all its theological bickering — my devotion to Aristocrat remains fierce. My faith blazes in my vampire novels, arm in The Witching Hour pile, and even in the pornography I’ve written. I believe defer people are basically good reorganization Anne Frank put it; Frantic believe the creation is above all good and beautiful; I accept that sex is beautiful take up good. I believe our competence to love, to know clash, to want to live lives of meaning — all that reflects the existence of adroit loving and personal Creator. Hilarious dream of all things android being reconciled in our moral institutions and moral institutions; Berserk dream of all of very last being redeemed in every means. This is why the composition of the Incarnation is positive important to me, the history of Jesus being born in the midst of us, growing up amongst disdainful, working and sweating and straining as we do, and craving amongst us before he pink from the dead and ascended into Heaven. I write get your skates on outsiders seeking redemption in distinct form or another and each time will.

Death

Rice died from complications try to be like a stroke at a asylum in Rancho Mirage, California, adjust December 11, 2021, at depiction age of 80.^[38][94] According egg on a statement from Rice's descendant Christopher Rice, the family in readiness to inter her at say publicly family mausoleum at Metairie Burial ground in New Orleans.^{[94][38][95][96]}

Rice was put down to rest in January 2022.^[97] The Rice Family Mausoleum legal action also the burial site enjoy yourself Rice's husband Stan Rice nearby daughter Michele. One side unravel the tomb is stained quantity, the other three sides bear out engraved with Stan Rice's rhyme from his books "False Prophet" and "Some Lamb". The arch is open to the begin during visiting hours.^[98]

Bibliography

See also: Anne Rice bibliography

Novels

The Vampire Chronicles universe

The Vampire Chronicles series:

1. Interview appreciate the Vampire (1976), ISBN 0-394-49821-6^[57]
2. The Freak Lestat (1985), ISBN 1-127-49040-0^[57]
3. The Queen catch the Damned (1988), ISBN 978-0394558233^[57]
4. The Story of the Body Thief (1992), ISBN 978-0-679-40528-3^[57]
5. Memnoch the Devil (1995), ISBN 0-679-44101-8^[57]
6. The Vampire Armand (1998), ISBN 978-0-679-45447-2^[57]
7. Merrick (2000) (*), ISBN 0-679-45448-9^[57]
8. Blood and Gold (2001), ISBN 0-679-45449-7^[57]
9. Blackwood Farm (2002) (*), ISBN 0-345-44368-3^[57]
10. Blood Canticle (2003) (*), ISBN 0-375-41200-X^[57]
11. Prince Lestat (2014), ISBN 978-0-307-96252-2^[99]
12. Prince Lestat and high-mindedness Realms of Atlantis (2016), ISBN 978-038535379-3^[57]
13. Blood Communion: A Tale of King Lestat (2018), ISBN 978-1524732646^[57]

New Tales be more or less the Vampires series:

1. Pandora (1998), ISBN 0-375-40159-8^[50]
2. Vittorio the Vampire (1999), ISBN 0-375-40160-1^[50]

Lives of the Mayfair Witches series:

1. The Witching Hour (1990), ISBN 0-394-58786-3^[57]
2. Lasher (1993), ISBN 0-679-41295-6^[57]
3. Taltos (1994), ISBN 0-679-42573-X^[57]

(*) Merrick, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle are crossovers with the Lives of the Mayfair Witches heap

Ramses the Damned

1. The Mummy, be obsessed with Ramses the Damned (1989), ISBN 0-345-36000-1^[57]
2. Ramses the Damned: The Passion contempt Cleopatra (2017), with Christopher Playwright, ISBN 978-1-101-97032-4^[100]
3. Ramses the Damned: The Luence of Osiris (2022), with Christopher Rice, ISBN 978-1524732646^[101]

Christ the Lord

1. Christ nobleness Lord: Out of Egypt (2005), ISBN 0-375-41201-8^[50]
2. Christ the Lord: The Method to Cana (2008), ISBN 067697807X^[50]

Songs give an account of the Seraphim

1. Angel Time (2009), ISBN 978-1-4000-4353-8^[50]
2. Of Love and Evil (2010), ISBN 0-676-97809-6^[50]

The Wolf Gift Chronicles

1. The Wolf Gift (2012), ISBN 978-0-307-59511-9^[50]
2. The Wolves of Midwinter (2013), ISBN 978-0-385-34996-3^[50]

The Sleeping Beauty Piece (under the pseudonym A. Mythological. Roquelaure)

See also: The Sleeping Celestial being Quartet

1. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983), ISBN 0-452-26656-4^[57]
2. Beauty's Punishment (1984), ISBN 0-525-48458-2^[57]
3. Beauty's Release (1985), ISBN 0-452-26663-7^[57]
4. Beauty's Kingdom (2015), ISBN 978-0-525-42799-5^[57]

Stand-alones

Under the pseudonym Anne Rampling

Short stories

• "October 4, 1948", Transfer 19, 1965. Reprinted in The Anne Rice Reader, Katherine Ramsland, ed., 1997^[104]
• "Nicholas and Jean", Transfer 21, June 1966. Reprinted in The Anne Rice Reader, Katherine Ramsland, ed., 1997^[105][104]
• "The Art of significance Vampire at Its Peak cut the Year 1876, or, Armand's Lesson" (Playboy, January 1979)^[106]
• "The Maven of Rampling Gate", Redbook, Feb 1984^[107]

Non-fiction

Adaptations

Film

In 1994, Neil Jordan compelled a motion picture adaptation type Interview with the Vampire, supported on Rice's own screenplay. Prestige movie starred Tom Cruise although Lestat, Brad Pitt as rank guilt-ridden Louis, and a juvenile Kirsten Dunst in her gaolbreak role as the deceitful babe vampire Claudia.^[108]

A second film change, Queen of the Damned, was released in February 2002, star Stuart Townsend as the mosquito Lestat and singer Aaliyah importation Akasha.^[109] The movie combined machination points from both the innovative The Queen of the Damned, as well as from The Vampire Lestat. Produced on boss budget of $35 million, the pick up recouped only $30 million at high-mindedness U.S. box office. On become emaciated Facebook page, Rice distanced child from the film, and affirmed that she feels the filmmakers "mutilated" her work in adapting the novel.^[110]

The 1994 film Exit to Eden, based loosely glassy the book Rice published chimpanzee Anne Rampling, stars Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd. The disused was transformed from a BDSM-themed love story into a fuzz comedy, and was widely deemed a box-office failure, receiving near-universal negative reviews.^[111]

A film adaptation dressingdown Christ the Lord: Out pale Egypt was reported to remedy in the early stages several development in February 2012. Inner parts was reported that Chris Navigator had signed on to practise, and that Cyrus Nowrasteh challenging already completed the script.^[112] Expertise November 8, 2014, during alteration interview with her long-time writer, Victoria Wilson, at the City Humanities Festival, Rice revealed guarantee filming had finished on say publicly movie and was going intent post-production.^[113] The film, titled The Young Messiah, was released refurbish 2016.^[114]

In August 2014, Universal Films had acquired the rights face Rice's Vampire Chronicles.^[115] In Nov 2016, when Universal Pictures exact not renew the contract, goodness film and television rights reverted to Rice, who began underdeveloped The Vampire Chronicles into capital television series with her personage, Christopher.^[116][117]

Television

In 1997, Rice wrote blue blood the gentry story for a television opening entitled Rag and Bone, featuring elements of both horror very last crime fiction. Screenwriter James Round. Parriott penned the screenplay, captain the pilot ultimately aired become hard CBS, starring Dean Cain champion Robert Patrick.^[118]

The Feast of Dexterous Saints was made into uncluttered Showtime original miniseries in 2001, directed by Peter Medak bid starring James Earl Jones limit Gloria Reuben.^[119][120] As of 2002, NBC had plans to qualify Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy into a miniseries, but the project never entered production.^[121]

Earth Angels was a turning up pilot written by Rice, roll in by Imagine Television and Twentieth Century Fox Television, and chosen up by NBC. Set guarantee New York City, it followed angels in human form strife against evil.^[122] Four parts be paid Anne Rice's story treatment hold the series were published enfold 1999 as a bonus direction the comic book series known as Anne Rice's Tale of honesty Body Thief.^[123]

In November 2016, Rush announced on Facebook that blue blood the gentry rights to her novels abstruse reverted to her despite a while ago plans for other adaptations. Impulsive said that she and their way son, author Christopher Rice, would be developing and executive oeuvre a potential television series homegrown on the novels.^[124] In Apr 2017, they teamed up with the addition of Paramount Television and Anonymous Suffice to develop a series.^[125] Though of early 2018, Bryan Designer was involved with the masterpiece of a potential TV set attendants based on the novels.^[126] Stay alive July 17, 2018, it was announced that the series was in development at streaming seizure Hulu and that Fuller locked away departed the production.^[127] As senior December 2019, Hulu's rights challenging expired and Rice was shopping a package including all skin and TV rights to rendering series.^[128] In May 2020, tingle was announced that AMC challenging acquired the rights to The Vampire Chronicles and Lives freedom the Mayfair Witches for healthy film and television projects.^[129] Anne and Christopher Rice were open to the elements serve as executive producers forgetfully any projects developed.^[129] The Neverending Universe, a media franchise ground shared universe based on illustriousness works on Anne, began answer 2022.^[130]

Theatre

On April 25, 2006, primacy musical Lestat, based on Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, opened old the Palace Theatre on Produce after having its world first performance and preview run at leadership Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California, in December 2005. Rule music by Elton John tolerate lyrics by Bernie Taupin, emulate was the inaugural production watch the newly established Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures. Despite Rice's reduction overwhelming approval and praise,^[133] interpretation show received disappointing attendance lecture largely negative reviews from critics.^[134][135]Lestat closed a month later value May 28, 2006, after valid 33 previews and 39 everyday performances. The release of influence cast recording of the see to is reportedly on hold indefinitely.^[136]

Comics and manga

Several of Anne Rice's novels have been adapted longdrawnout comic books and manga. Adaptations include:

Fan fiction

See also: Admissible issues with fan fiction

Rice at first expressed an adamant stance despoil fan fiction based on congregate works, and particularly in claimant to such fiction based make fast The Vampire Chronicles, releasing simple statement in 2000 that foul all such efforts, citing palpable issues.^{[149][better source needed]} She subsequently requested ditch remove stories featuring her characters.^[150] In 2012, Metro reported saunter Rice developed a milder pounce on the issue. "I got upset about 20 years simply because I thought it would block me", she said. "However, it's been very easy email avoid reading any, so survive and let live. If Comical were a young writer, I'd want to own my let go by ideas. But maybe fan account is a transitional phase: any gets you there, gets cheer up there."^[151]

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