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Anne Rice Library

Anne Rice is one of America's most read authors. She has written under the names of A. N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling as well as the incomparable Anne Rice.

Born Howard Allen O'Brien in New Orleans, on October 4th, 1941 - she chose the first name Anne on her first day of school. At 16 Anne moved to Texas and attended Richardson High School and then began classes at Texas Women's College in Denton. In 1961 she married Stan Rice and relocated to San Francisco. and in 1969 the couple moved to Berkley with their then 3 year old daughter, Michelle. Anne began working on her PHD at Berkley, later earning her Masters Degree in creative writing from SFSU. In 1972, daughter Michelle died of Leukemia.

Beginning in 1976, Anne began the road to stardom, with the publishing of Interview With A Vampire, and In 1979, son Christopher was born. In the '80's the Rice's moved back to New Orleans and Anne became one of our bestselling authors with over 20 books to her credit. For more in depth details visit the author's homepage.

Upcoming Events

Anne is currently working on the next book in the "Christ The Lord" series.

Just a note: Many of Anne's books are currntly out of print, which is why this page appears so short. For a complete listing of her books click here.

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Christ The Lord
By Anne Rice
Offering her most ambitious and courageous work yet, Anne Rice presents a novel based on the Gospels about the early years of Christ. The power of this story is derived from the passion through which its author summons the voice and words of Jesus, who tells the story.
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Beauty's Punishment
By A. N. Roquelaure
The sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty continues Rice's series of classic fairy tales with an erotic flavor. Beauty is sent away from the castle & sold at auction in "the village." Here she experiences tantalizing punishments which educate her in love, dominance & submission.
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Belinda
By Anne Rice
Jeremy Walker is sexually remote, a children's author and illustrator who lives by himself. Belinda is a 15-year-old girl of relative sophistication, who, upon meeting Jeremy, agrees to his erotic fantasies on the condition that he not delve into her past. However, Jeremy cannot resist.
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Blackwood Farm
By Anne Rice
Fusing her vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches, Rice takes readers to Blackwood Farm. Haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, young Quinn Blackwood has been prevented from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made into a vampire, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
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Blood and Gold
By Anne Rice
This volume of the Vampire Chronicles focuses on the life of Marius, the 2000-year-old guardian charged with watching over the body of the Queen of the Damned, Akasha. Centuries later, he recounts his adventures in ancient Rome, his career as a painter, and his search to be forgiven for failing Akasha.
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Blood Canticle
By Anne Rice
Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off -- and tells the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm.
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
By A. N. Roquelaure
This retelling of the folktale explores the undeniable connections to sexual desire as the Prince awakens Beauty not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation.
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Exit To Eden
By Anne Rampling
With the same mystery, menace and intensity as her Vampire books, Exit to Eden explores the forbidden by taking us The Club, a vacation paradise where no aspect of sexual pleasure is taboo. Just as The Story of O shocked the Sixties by speaking about what had only been whispered, Exit to Eden gives voices to the sexual secrets of the Eighties.
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Interview With A Vampire
By Anne Rice
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Lasher
By Anne Rice
Moving between human & demonic worlds, this saga returns to the hypnotic world of The Witching Hour.
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Merrick
By Anne Rice
MERRICK is the seventh volume in the Vampire Chronicles and is also linked to author Rice's Mayfair Witches series. This volume follows the life of Merrick Mayfair, an orphan raised by a scholar with connections to Lestat. As she grows, Merrick develops and hones a power over life and death, but, unable to render herself immortal, falls in with Lestat who is reluctant to turn her into a vampire for fear of repeating the debacle with the 7-year-old Claudia (from INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE).
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The Mummy Or Ramses The Damned
By Anne Rice
The mummy of Ramses the Great is found in the early 1900s in Cairo. Needing only the rays of the sun, Ramses soon comes back to life & lives in human form in London. Soon, Ramses, a.k.a. Reginald Ramsey, decides to awaken his long lost love Cleopatra in this modern erotic story.
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Pandora: New Tales Of The Vampires
By Anne Rice
The time is the present in Paris where David meets Pandora who is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to write for him the story of her life, from her mortal girlhood in the peaceful Rome of Caesar Augustus through her perilous journey toward the vampire Marius, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift, & through their two centuries together before they are tragically lost to each other.
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The Queen Of The Damned
By Anne Rice
Akasha - the Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires - has awakened from her 6,000 year sleep determined to become mankind's blood thirsty savior.
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Servant Of The Bones
By Anne Rice
Azriel, a genie who has existed as a spirit for thousands of years, metamorphoses into human form in contemporary New York. He first recounts the tale of his life in ancient times, then turns to the pressing matters at hand: a computer-created cult is plotting to decimate two-thirds of the world's population. Can Azriel protect the unwitting world from impending slaughter while acclimating to modern conveniences?
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Tale of The Body Thief
By Anne Rice
When a stranger offers vampire Lestat a chance to use a human body for a few days, Lestat is estatic. But, oh, what havoc can be wreaked in just a few short days.
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The Vampire Lestat
By Anne Rice
Lestat, who made Louis into a vampire in "Interview with a Vampire", awakens from an ancient sleep and finds himself in the 1980s. Resourceful, enamored of glamour, he becomes a rock star. The novel traces the vampire legend from its origins in ancient Egypt its through European permutations and, eventually, to America.
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The Witching Hour
By Anne Rice
The Mayfair family is heir to the awesome gift--or curse--of witchery. Knowledge of the legacy was withheld from neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair until the power passed to her on the death of a relative. With this power comes the attention of the demon Lasher, who now wants to enter the mortal world forever through one of his human conduits.
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