Rice’s son Christopher noted that next year a celebration of her life will be held in New Orleans, so you may want to book your travel now. (She was apparently carried to the event in a casket.) Her fan club has held and continues to hold themed events, including the notable 1995 Memnoch Ball. For decades she lived in the Brevard-Clapp House (now also known as the Brevard-Rice House), which became a pilgrimage for many tourists. Though Rice’s early career was launched in the Bay Area (she lived in Haight-Ashbury before the hippies got there), she returned to New Orleans, where she was born, once she became a success. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. But in 2010, she publicly “quit being a Christian.” She elaborated: “In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. She wrote two books in her Christ the Lord series during that period, depicting Jesus’ youth and teen years. (It was, unfortunately, a notorious flop.)Ī staunch atheist most of her life (Rice devised her own creation myth in the 1995 best-seller “Memnoch the Devil”), she returned to her Catholic faith in 1998.

The former is a BDSM romance that was dramatically altered and adapted into a broad comedy directed by Garry Marshall, starring Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O’Donnell.

As “Anne Rampling,” she wrote the books Exit to Eden and Belinda. Roquelaure,” she wrote four books riffing on the Sleeping Beauty story ( in which the central figure is awakened by far more than a kiss, and “pony gear” is at some point involved). She also had two noms de plume for erotic fiction. In addition to Rice’s main series, she wrote a number of standalone novels, a trilogy called The Lives of the Mayfair Witches (which featured some crossover with The Vampire Chronicles), and novels set in ancient Egypt. In 2006, Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote the music and lyrics to a short-lived musical, Lestat, based on the character. Another Vampire Chronicles novel, The Queen of the Damned, was adapted into a film in 2002, with Aaliyah playing Akasha, the first earthly vampire, and Stuart Townsend as Lestat.

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