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->''"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words."''
-->-- '''Anne Rice'''

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 — December 11, 2021) was an American horror/erotica/religious fiction writer.

In 1976, Rice published the influential ''Interview with the Vampire'', which became the first in the popular ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Vampire Chronicles]]'' series, followed by ''The Vampire Lestat'' in 1985. Around the same time, she published a [[ConvenientlyCommonKink BDSM trilogy]] and started another horror trilogy, ''The Literature/LivesOfTheMayfairWitches'', set in the same universe as ''The Vampire Chronicles''. [[FlipFlopOfGod A few Religious Conversions later]], she moved on to write new series' on the Life of Jesus, Angels, and Werewolves, as well as a few stand-alones (''Cry to Heaven'', ''Servant of the Bones'', etc.).

Beginning with 1992's ''Tale of the Body Thief'', Rice decided to [[ProtectionFromEditors forgo using an editor]]. How it's impacted the quality of her work since [[BrokenBase is debated by her fanbase]].

Her son, Christopher Rice, is quite popular himself.

On December 11, 2021, Rice died at the age of 80 due to complications resulting from a stroke.

!!Works by Anne Rice:
* ''Literature/ExitToEden'' (first published as Anne Rampling)
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''
* ''Literature/LivesOfTheMayfairWitches''
* ''The Sleeping Beauty Series'' (as A. N. Roquelaure)
* ''Christ The Lord''
* ''Songs of the Seraphim''
* ''The Wolf Gift Chronicles''
* ''The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned''
* ''Servant of the Bones''
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!!Anne Rice is known for:

* AuthorAppeal: New Orleans, Neo-Classical Architecture, Renaissance Art, {{Goth}} fashions, and, most of all, Lestat himself.
* BeigeProse: "The Story of Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang" in ''Queen of the Damned'' employs this to jarring and hilarious effect; if there's ''anyone'' less likely to use Beige Prose, it's [[PurpleProse Anne Rice]].
** Appropriate, for a section meant as an {{Homage}} / AffectionateParody to ''Film/TheLostBoys''.
* DysfunctionJunction: Ubiquitous.
* FanWorkBan: Not that it stops many. She was somewhat [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Where_has_Anne_Rice_fanfiction_gone%3F hostile]] towards fanfic authors in the past. In her later years, she softened her position and gone on to say that she "ignores" fanfiction.
* TheFilmOfTheBook:
** ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'', and ''Literature/ExitToEden.''
** ''Film/TheYoungMessiah'' is based on ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.''
** ''The Feast of All Saints'' was adapted as a Showtime TV movie.
* GenderBlenderName: [[StageName Her real name]] is '''Howard Allen Frances O'Brien.''' You can't blame her for changing it.
* GodIsEvil: A common theme in her pre-Born Again years, when everyone isn't [[RageAgainstTheHeavens raging against]] the concept.
* {{Goth}}
* HollywoodAtheist: How Anne came to regard her younger days.
* MeaningfulRename: Her parents named her ''Howard'' at birth. Unsurprisingly, she was [[EmbarrassingFirstName very self-conscious about this]] and took the first opportunity she had to get rid of it. On her first day of school, she said her name was Anne because she thought it was very pretty and from then on, that's what everyone she knew called her.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: The obvious OurVampiresAreDifferent, but also [[OurWitchesAreDifferent witches]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] and {{mumm|y}}ies. Despite what one would expect from a person with such prodigious historical knowledge, Rice invented her mythos whole cloth to suit her own narrative purposes, and barely acknowledged the original superstitions and stories. In ensuing years, the rest of the genre [[FollowTheLeader followed suit]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her daughter Michelle contracted leukemia, dying at the age of six.
* PurpleProse: Like Creator/HPLovecraft before her, a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools well-done example]].
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Common in her Atheist Days, obviously less so once she became born-again. Where she'll go after renouncing religion again is anybody's guess.
* RuleOfDrama: No exceptions.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'' and ''Series/MayfairWitches''.
* StrawNihilist: A common character type. Anne actually characterized her younger self as this after she reconverted to Catholicism.
* SouthernGothic: Emphasis on the "Gothic" part. Many of her works feature that decayed Old South feel.
* TropeMaker: If you like your vampires [[TroubledButCute handsome, tortured]], French, a bit [[AmbiguouslyGay flamboyant]], and flip flopping on the whole good/evil thing, you have Mrs. Rice to thank for that. Her work and tropes are typically respected when referenced by other creators, [[YourVampiresSuck not disdained]]. Most of her vampire lore is preserved in the works that followed, upstaging and replacing the nature of the UrExample created by Creator/BramStoker.
* YourVampiresSuck: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. Typical aversions to silver, garlic and crucifixes are condemned, as are abilities like turning into mist, bats, etc. though Louis openly admits he'd not be against turning into mist.
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