The next book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is out, just in time for Halloween! In this latest installment of Lestat’s adventures, the Brat Prince is doing a lot of soul-searching as he wonders about his place in the universe and in the Vampire Court. That right there is at least three-quarters of the plot.
At the end of Anne Rice’s The Mummy, the centuries-old Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Damned has given the elixir of immortality to his lover Julie Stratford, the heiress who first introduced him to the world of Edwardian England. Meanwhile, Ramses’s former lover Queen Cleopatra awakens in a remote hospital in the Egyptian wilderness, having somehow
You can listen to this episode on our Spookeasy channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a massive podcast crossover!! As Elizabeth from the Lost in Sci-Fi podcast and twin sister Kathryn from the Binary System podcast joins for this wonderful discussion of the great horror writer: Anne Rice. The trio got into why they like her, what
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s ring in 2017 with a review of Anne Rice’s latest installment in the Vampire Chronicles. The previous book in this series ended with Lestat becoming the host of the ancient force that connects all vampires throughout the world. The famous Brat Prince is now Prince Lestat, linked to the spirit Amel – who
This week the crew sits down and watched one of the worst movies ever made, 1994 Exit to Eden. You remember! The one where Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyed are cops who go undercover at a BDSM Sex Island. Yea, that one! It’s so bad. Two movies in one and neither movie is good. So
That’s what they all love about Lestat. He says we’re damned and then he behaves as if Hell has no dominion over him. Anne Rice doesn’t need a lot of introduction. In 1976 she published Interview with the Vampire, which pretty much shaped the course of all vampire fiction from then on. The whole concept of vampires changed from things-that-go-bump-in-the-night,
In her career, Anne Rice has recreated the mythology of vampires, witches, ghosts, mummies, and whatever the main character was in Servant of the Bones. It was probably only a matter of time before she wrote a werewolf story. Rice’s books are usually categorized as horror, and there are certainly a lot of horror elements in The