GROSS: Now, early in your life, I think you were part of the Catholic Church, and I think your mother used to be fairly religious. The more I read in the occult, the more I'm fascinated by what ordinary people have experienced with mediums, communicating with the dead and their near-death experiences - we have a lot of books on that today - and past life regression and things like this. GROSS: So you believe that that's a possibility. I think I consciously shut it out because the evidence, the written scholarly evidence for apparitions, for ghosts, for something out there that we can't explain is really rather overwhelming. I felt all my life that there's something there, and I think I shut it out. But I'll tell you I'm very afraid of the dark. TERRY GROSS: Did you ever have an experience that you could only attribute to the supernatural that was either, like, mystical or psychic?ĪNNE RICE: No, I've actually had none. And she wrote erotic and pornographic novels under two different pen names. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.ĭAVIES: Besides her books about the supernatural, Anne Rice wrote a novel about the careers of two castrati, male singers who were castrated before puberty to preserve their voices. There seems no reason for any of it does there? What if I could give it back to you, pluck out the pain and give you another life, one you could never imagine? And it would be for all time, and sickness and death could never touch you again. Life has no meaning anymore does it? The wine has no taste. TOM CRUISE: (As Lestat de Lioncourt) I've come to answer your prayers. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE")īRAD PITT: (As Louis de Pointe du Lac) Who are you? What are you doing in my house?
He's visited in the night by the vampire Lestat, played by Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt plays a man in despair because he's lost his wife and daughter. Here's a scene from the movie "Interview With The Vampire," released in 1994. She followed with more than a dozen novels that became known as "The Vampire Chronicles." She began writing it four years earlier as a way to process the grief she felt at the death of her 5-year-old daughter from leukemia. Rice was a little-known writer when "Interview With The Vampire," her first novel, became a hit in 1976. Growing up in New Orleans, she was influenced early on by the 19th century mansions and the rituals of the Catholic Church she was raised in. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross.Īnne Rice, best known for her novels about the supernatural, including the bestseller "Interview With The Vampire," died Saturday at the age of 80.
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