Anne Rice
Anne Rice is one of the most well known, if not of the most respected, writers of our time. Anne Rice has become famous mostly for her gothic literature about the subject of vampires, however she has also written a good bit of successful erotica under a pen name, and most recently, a book un the life of Jesus Christ which is being hailed by many Christians as the best religious book of the year. Anne Rice is in the company of such writers as Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft, who write extremely dark, easily digestible horror in bulk to give us goosebumps for many nights to come.
Unlike many classics of the vampire genre, much of the books of Anne Rice are set not in victorian or, even earlier, in medieval times, but instead in modern New Orleans. The backdrop of Voodoo and witchcraft lend the writing of Anne Rice a really creapy and contemporary style which is not like anyone else writing today. Personally, I believe that there are really too many books about Jesus, but not nearly enough about vampires. People have cast and recast the Jesus Christ story in modern times, in mythological worlds with talking animals as in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, and even in Soviet Russia in the book The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov, but really there is very little experimentation which has been done about Jesus' dark counterpart, the vampire. I hope that Anne Rice, with her unique style, and one of a kind voice, backs off the Christian theme soon and goes back to the vampire books that made her so famous. The world can do without another contemporary Christian work, but it really can't do without more vampires as far as I'm concerned.
As I said before, Anne Rice is not exactly high reading, but why should that bother anyone? Who doesn't like to occasionally sit back and enjoy a work of pulp now and then? I'm sure I do, especially if it seems relavant enough to my life to give me chills, as is the case with Anne Rice. Anne Rice shows that medieval Transylvania and Victorian England are not the only places that can be haunted by an ancient and unspeakable evil. Any place can be a den of mystery and terror when a good story teller like Anne Rice can put their pen to paper and make it so.
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