Didn't we do this a couple of years ago?

[lederhosen]

Via mothwentbad, Anne Rice explains that she has been misunderstood:

...perhaps you will forgive me for adding here that these earlier works have always enjoyed from the beginning a large Christian audience, and something of a literary audience, made up of those who appreciate their spiritual and moral themes.

For me, the entire body of my earlier work, reflects a movement towards Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, while she goes to some lengths to explain that Interview with the Vampire is about mankind's struggle with evil and all, there is no discussion of how her journey towards Jesus led her to the Sleeping Beauty trilogy nearly ten years down the road. Maybe it's really about how happy we will all be when Jesus ties us up and spanks us and... no, I think I'll leave that sentence alone.

If I had it to do over again, I would not use the word “vampire” in my novels. In 1976, when Interview with the Vampire was published there was no “vampire literature” published in America.

It's a shame August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, and P. Schuyler Miller* are no longer around to contest that statement, but Richard Matheson and Stephen King might have something to say about it. ("'Salem's Lot" came out in 1975. Maybe it's really just a thinly-veiled allegory for Rastafarianism?)

*If you like vampire stories, do yourself a favour and hunt down 'Over the River' some time.

PS: Hate webpages that play music at me unsolicited. Hate hate hate. Especially when they do so on endless loop.

PPS: While I'm blinking in bemusement, the headline says it all: Bears eat man at beer festival.

Comments

[malloc1024.livejournal.com]

So does that mean that she's written another work so perfect that it doesn't need editors?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Kinda reminds me of the King James Only movement, really.

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

It's kind of strange that someone can be just barely fanatical enough to insist on a canonical translation, stopping short of insisting on learning Greek.

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Jesus is her editor and co-pilot.

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

I wish people would realise that they don't know everything, and can't know everything before their "time" if they don't even look *sigh*

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Richard Matheson's dead?

On topic, though: IIRC, Rice's husband, when asked about the Sleeping Beauty series, said something like, "We're not into S&M; it's just that Anne went to a Catholic school."

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Richard Matheson's dead?

...apparently not. Teach me to go making assumptions :-)