Anne Rice sometimes used an unusual mode of transport around her native New Orleans: a 6ft coffin driven in a blacked-out hearse and flanked by her “personal undertakers”. The spectacle drew legions of pallid fans, who followed her around the Big Easy in search of her “blood-soaked” signature inside a copy of Interview with the Vampire (1976), her debut novel.
“I write instinctively and spontaneously about what hooks me, and that’s frequently death, guilt and vampires,” she told The Sunday Times. “The supernatural is fascinating to me.”
Rice had always wanted to be a writer, but nothing seemed to work out until after the death of her daughter, Michele, nicknamed “Mouse”, from leukaemia in 1972, shortly before her sixth birthday. “I went back to
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