OK, I confess. I am a huge fan of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles series and have read every one of the books. In contrast, I never really got into the Witches of Mayfair series. Perhaps it is because the vampire chronicles have a much stronger undercurrent of homoeroticism and a strong sense of the vampires being "other" just as gays are viewed as being "other" by much of society. Whatever the reason, I am happy that Anne Rice is going to write another book in the vampire series. Here is what Time is reporting (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1716849,00.html):"One more book." Those are the words Anne Rice fans have been dying to hear about the Vampire Chronicles ever since her shocking — and dismaying to many of his followers — turn to religious writing. Long seen as a committed atheist, four years ago the best-selling author drove a stake through the hearts of her followers when she vowed to abandon her sinister stories and instead write only of the Lord.
In an interview with TIME, the best-selling author of Interview with the Vampire and The Queen of the Damned, has revealed that she plans to write one last book about Lestat, the feared, yet beloved, blood-sucking main character in her gothic novel series. "But I have one more book that I would really like to write. It will be a story that I need to tell."
While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural. Much like the author herself, Lestat will be wrestling with the existence of God throughout the story.
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