Rest In Peace, Anne Rice

[calliopes_pen]

Anne Rice passed away last night, at the age of 80, as a result of complications from a stroke. May she rest in peace.

She will be forever known as the author who wrote the entirety of The Vampire Chronicles*. I never got around to reading those, though did stumble across several fanfic crossovers with Highlander: The Series back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. (And still recall various author’s notes begging her not to come after them given how she disliked fanfic at that point in time.)

At some point soon, I think I need to rectify that omission, and at least read Interview With The Vampire. I did watch and enjoy Interview with the Vampire (1994), though that was primarily as a result of the performances of Kirsten Dunst and Tom Cruise. I recently heard the novel was going to be adapted into a tv series on AMC, though I don’t have cable.

*There are more books in that series than I realized!

Comments

[squidgiepdx]

Interview With The Vampire is the reason I have a "Brad Pitt needs long hair" kink. Because he was practically perfect (visually) in that movie.

[darkestplaces]

I picked up my very well read, very falling apart, copy of Interview With The Vampire and started re-reading it for the god-knows-how-many-th time this morning. I'm very sad but I didn't know about the AMC series and I'm now intrigued... they can't make a worse job than the two movies, surely!

[laurajv]

The thing about reading IWTV at the time was, it was just -- wow this is a different kind of vampire story!

and re-reading it (and TVL) a few years back I started laughing because yes, it was a different kind of vampire story, except now so many of the vampire stories are copying it that it's like the Star Trek of vampire stories: OH, that's where that trope comes from.