*****BLOOD-SUCKING SPOILERS!***** I’ve been an Anne Rice fan for around three decades now, having read half of her “Vampire Chronicles” books. For a time, they were a staple of my late 1990s/early-2000s literary diet. Having seen the movie adaptations of “Interview With The Vampire” (1994) and 2002’s “Queen of the Damned” (a mashup of the…
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AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire”(2022) offers a new take on Anne Rice’s bloodsuckers…
*****BLOODY SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Anne Rice’s Legacy The late Anne Rice (1941-2021) upended the traditional vampire novel by telling the story from the bloodsucker’s perspective in her groundbreaking 1976 novel, “Interview with the Vampire.” The book was a sensation; breaking new ground in gothic horror and erotic fiction, with its pansexual creatures of the night serving…
San Diego Comic Con 2022 returns at full-strength…
Welcome Back, San Diego Comic Con. With the cancellation of San Diego Comic Con 2020 and the much smaller capacity San Diego Comic Con ‘Special Edition’ over last year’s Thanksgiving weekend, SDCC returned in all of its 130,000 attendee glory this past week (July 20th-July 24th), and it was both good and a little terrifying…
Anne Rice (1941-2021) achieved immortality by reimagining the vampire tale…
Anne Rice (1941-2021) It was an awful way to begin my birthday, reading a news alert on my phone that a favorite author of mine, Anne Rice, had passed away following a stroke at the age of 80. The author, whose own fascination with immortality was realized through her vampires, witches and other godlike beings,…
