Christocentric Vampiralooza: Sue Dent on Anne Rice

Sue Dent flips out spectacularly over at the Lost Genre Guild again. This time, about Anne Rice.

Man, every time humans start to bore me to tears, here comes Sue with a kleenex and ninja moves.

I never realized that Rice's rather dramatic conversion (on the literary side - on the personal/biographical side it was more progressive) did not have a massive impact on reading Christians at the time.

Funny, I first read Interview with A Vampire in my God-hating days, but still appreciated her work after He brought me to heel in brutal liberty. Then, years after my somewhat abrupt conversion, Rice came back around to the Jesus gypsy wagon.

I just assumed that one of the foremost supernatural writers of the day turning to her Lord, and, therefore, turning countless eyes toward Him was probably the Christian writing story of the decade. Apparently, Sue would beg to differ. It seems that all the important Christ-following outlets barely note the dramatic shift.

But then she starts listing as important Christ-following outlets as the CBA and ECPA and ASPCA and some other letters that confuse me/sound vaguely like late-seventies power synthesizer-driven rock groups. Then I get hungry for alphabet soup.

Just to be clear: Rice has not committed to a final Lestat-confronting-the-Redeemer book. She has only admitted that it would be possible, and that the concept intrigues her.

Have I now confounded you? Go to Anne's site to get the details. I'm going back to sleep. But, first, I need to satisfy my hankering for some ELO:



Darn you Sue Dent! Darn you to heck!