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With The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice Returns to Supernatural Horror
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It raised a lot of eyebrows in 2005 when Anne Rice, best-selling writer of more than a dozen supernatural horror novels, including the groundbreaking Interview With the Vampire, announced that henceforth she'd be writing novels simply nearly Jesus.
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It raised even more eyebrows five years afterwards when she alleged that she'd renounced Christianity. Her new werewolf novel, The Wolf Souvenir, marks her render to supernatural horror.
"I left [Christianity] because I felt ultimately it was a very dishonest and dishonorable belief arrangement, that information technology was founded on contradictions and absurdities and out-and-out lies," says Rice in this week'southward episode of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
Such views are par for the class on Rice'due south Facebook page, which boasts more than than 600,000 followers. She's highly involved with the folio, frequently posting 40 times a day. And while almost of the conversations involve fiction, movies and poesy, it'southward the posts about religion that depict the near attention. "Nosotros do have religious people coming on the folio and blazing away, calling me everything from 'demonic' to 'dark' to 'full of hate and poison' for criticizing their faith," she says.
Merely Rice's books are anything simply demonic, even when the stories involve archetype supernatural monsters such as vampires and werewolves. And despite what critics might expect, Rice is sympathetic and fair-minded to Christians in her new book. The Wolf Gift includes a kindly Catholic priest named Jim, brother to the novel's werewolf hero, Reuben.
"Reuben had a need to talk to somebody about this," says Rice, "and I besides idea a Catholic priest was going to exist an interesting person to talk about information technology morally. And frankly, a supernatural hero that doesn't have a moral business about ripping people to shreds isn't very interesting to me."
Rice still considers herself a laic, and is still engaged in a spiritual quest, but at least for the moment she feels confident that organized religion is non for her.
"I can't say that [organized faith] is a good matter or that it'south washed more good than evil," she says. "I think maybe information technology's done more than evil than good. And I retrieve the search for God, the honest search for God, led me completely away from religion."
Read our complete interview with Rice below, in which she discusses her love of science fiction and comics, responds to readers who dislike her new protagonist, and talks about why nosotros're living in the Gilt Age of fantasy fiction. Or mind to the interview in Episode 58 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which also includes a conversation near horror and publishing, featuring hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Hashemite kingdom of jordan Hamessley London, a children's volume editor at Penguin Books.
Wired: Your new novel, The Wolf Gift, is about werewolves. What fabricated yous want to write a book most these creatures?
Anne Rice: Actually, somebody suggested the idea to me, and it was at a very skilful time. I was working on a novel about Atlantis, and it wasn't working, and I was very bogged down, and I really wanted something new to practice. A friend of mine, an e-mail buddy, Jeff Eastin, who is the producer of the TV prove White Neckband, he merely happened to write me an electronic mail and say he had seen a documentary on werewolf legends and fiction, and that if I always wanted to tackle that subject field, he would really be in that location to purchase the book.
And for some reason that struck domicile with me. I thought, "Why don't I try that? Why don't I effort that for the first fourth dimension, really requite that a go, and see if I tin do information technology in my ain special fashion?" And I began to think nearly it, and within a matter of months I had the novel The Wolf Gift. It was only a wonderful turn in the road for me. I'm very grateful to Jeff. I have recently asked him if he had any other brilliant ideas he'd like me to tackle.
Wired: The story opens with your protagonist, Reuben, visiting a mansion called Nideck Signal, which is very vividly described. How did yous come upwards with all the details about the house?
Rice: That house is really a dream house, and information technology's based on all the big houses that I have had the privilege to own and renovate in the last 15 or 20 years. I've lived in a series of absolutely wonderful houses, in New Orleans mainly, simply as well a very big, beautiful old house in Oakland before I ever went s. I don't alive in a house like that now. I alive in a small writer'south retreat, and the idea is to proceed things uncomplicated here. Just I started to write about Nideck Point, and I just started to create a business firm out of all those houses that I've known and loved and experienced in intimate ways. And for me that house is actually a grapheme in the novel.
Wired: Most stories make existence a werewolf seem like a expletive, but this book really presents it as something pretty attractive. Why did yous decide to accept that arroyo?
Rice: Well, I've done that with vampires, and I've done that to some extent with witches, and with the mummy, tried to turn the whole thing around and say, "What if this was actually enticing and sensuous and wonderful, and not at all the fashion it has been presented in the by?" So I really merely carried that through with werewolves too. I hateful, my vampires Lestat and Louis and Armand, they await more like angels than the feral Dracula. And they're not repulsive similar Dracula, they're very seductive and cute. To me that added to the drama, to the tragic dilemma of the vampire, that immortality in the form of a vampire gave him so much power, and so many gifts, then much charm and glamour.
I felt I wanted to explore the same thought with The Wolf Gift. You know, there had to be a seductive side to the power, of feeling yourself proceeds strength, and your muscles get stronger and your limbs get longer and your whole body becomes invulnerable with a soft wonderful coat of hair. And you go fangs and y'all get claws and you are able to really destroy your enemies without much thought. And I thought, "That'south got to be seductive. That'southward got to be great." These are all decisions authors make. Conspicuously, for example, the person who fabricated the movie The Howling — or American Werewolf in London, in item — decided to make the transformation painful. But I just didn't see that information technology had to exist painful. And I wanted to explore information technology in another way.
And another thing too that I noticed in all the werewolf films that I watched — clearly the transformation into a werewolf in item is a metaphor for adolescence and the sexual transformation of a child. You have a basically neuter-gender person who's on an equal basis with all other neuter-gender people, so suddenly adolescence comes and 1 child turns into a woman, another child turns into a man, both feel sexuality, and sexuality really turns their world upside down. I mean, information technology certainly did for me every bit a teenager. It destroyed everything and made possible a whole dissimilar life.
And I felt that clearly the werewolf myth has been explored like that. You can see information technology in Ginger Snaps, you lot can see it in almost whatsoever werewolf movie. That really intrigued me. I wanted to explore the seductive side of that, to have a beau who didn't have a lot of personal confidence, who was very much looked down on by those around him, didn't accept him seriously, really sort of sneered at him, and see what it felt like for that swain to proceeds this power, this unique ability to be a homo-wolf and to live a certain powerful and secretive life that actually put him quite far away from those who had denigrated him and had antipathy for him.
Wired: In many ways this story resembles a archetype superhero story, with Reuben fighting crime and keeping his identity secret. Do you lot come across The Wolf Gift every bit an instance of a superhero story?
Rice: Oh yeah, very much so. I like that thought. I wanted to explore that idea. I love graphic novels, I love superhero stories, I love all of it. I was in the front row of the first Superman movie, to see what they were going to do with that, you know, humanizing Clark Kent and Superman. And I wanted very much to do that, and it felt authentic to me. If I changed into a werewolf in San Francisco in 2011, I might get out and kill bad people also, particularly if I was conscious, and my hero is conscious. He'due south still Reuben when he becomes a wolf. He doesn't just black out and become tear people to pieces at random, like Lon Chaney Jr., for example, or Benecio Del Toro in the remake of The Wolfman. He's witting, so he goes later on the bad guys, yeah.
Rice: Well, IDW did Servant of the Basic, and I call up they did a great job. They were very faithful to the volume. I liked their art. They got the darkness of it, and I actually liked that adaptation. I actually practise. And I would love to work with IDW on other books.
I oasis't seen the Yen Interview With the Vampire yet. They've done it from Claudia'due south signal of view. They negotiated with the states to go the right to do that, to make a real accommodation, another dramatic adaptation by doing Claudia's view of the story of Interview With the Vampire, and I'k curious every bit to how that will work.
I think that's quite a legitimate thing to practise, and I was happy giving them the license to do that, and what I've seen of their fine art is gorgeous. It tends to be more representational and less abstract than some graphic novel art, and that'south really what I like in graphic novel art. I like representational, fully proportioned human beings and intricate detail and and so along, then I accept loftier hopes for that Yen adaptation.
I'd beloved to encounter a lot more of my work become into graphic novels. I hope The Wolf Gift will get into a graphic novel. I've always loved the course. I loved it when I was a child.
Wired: I idea it was interesting in The Wolf Souvenir how you accept Reuben acquiring fiction and movies about werewolves as he's trying to puzzle out his status. How did you make up one's mind which werewolf books and movies y'all'd have him come across?
Rice: I mentioned the movies I liked and stories I liked, simply at that place wasn't a whole lot of material there. There is a finite end to werewolf movies. And of grade he likes Beauty and the Beast by Cocteau, but as I do, just he finds it disturbing to see the brute walking around as a beast in beautiful velvet apparel and speaking, considering that most resembles what Reuben is in the volume. He doesn't wear apparel, no, only he speaks, and he can make love, and can retrieve and reason, and even sing and dance, as a human-wolf, and drive a car and use his iPod.
Wired: In item Reuben finds that some of the names associated with Nideck Point are drawn from French short stories about werewolves. Are those real stories?
Rice: Yes, those stories I reference are real. "The Human being Wolf" is a real story by two French authors, and they do speak of a "Nideck" in in that location. That's in the public domain, it's an old story. And I thought it would be interesting that — y'all know, we don't want to give spoilers in this interview — merely I was playing with the idea that immortals in time would have to have some way before the internet to signal each other, and that one mode they might use is by taking names that would cue to other werewolves that they were werewolves. If they wanted to meet others, and get together with others, they could take a name that was like a code proper name, and so some of the people in this novel practise that, they take names from classic werewolf stories in order to signal each other. I didn't really become into their motives and so much in the novel. I could do that in a sequel.
Wired: The book takes a very scientific arroyo to werewolves, and Reuben tries to puzzle everything out in terms of the scientific discipline involved. Did y'all do any sort of scientific research into wolves or biological science in club to write those parts of the volume?
Rice: I did, but one of the things I had to deal with, first off, was that Deoxyribonucleic acid would be a real trouble for a werewolf, unless in that location was some reason why his DNA couldn't be obtained. And so without a spoiler here, I want to say that was something I had to work on. What would the DNA of Reuben in human-wolf grade exist like? Would it be partially animate being and partially human, and what were the differences? And I do mention some of the differences, like the saliva that they showtime find indicates animal saliva, considering animals do take different enzymes in their saliva from what we have. Dogs do, wolves practise. And I experience like the story's better if you're dealing with those constraints, if you're theorizing that the change, for example, is probably hormonal, because hormones do actually regulate our growth — how alpine we get, when nosotros go pubic pilus, when we get pilus under our arms, when a man gets a beard, when his voice drops. All this is hormonal, and the schedule is influenced by hormones, and so I really loved playing with that idea that Rueben'south transformation was hormonal, but nevertheless there's a lot most it that he can't figure out, and neither tin can the other people in the story.
"I beloved studying the scientific discipline of ghosts, the science behind near-decease experiences."
I don't have a scientific mind and I can't retain the cognition very hands, but I honey studying the science of ghosts, the science backside most-death experiences, all of this. And I love trying to include some science in hither. Because people today are naturally going to deal with this. I remember any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to desire to catch him and written report him. His big enemy is not going to exist Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it tin can do to cure affliction or grant immortality.
Wired: What resources exercise yous detect most helpful for the science backside ghosts and about-expiry experiences and things similar that?
Rice: Well, at that place are some wonderful books, and in that location have been for years, on about-expiry experiences. I read those all the time. I wish I had the authors' names at my fingertips, just I don't. Simply people take done a number of scientific studies to try to verify that when people go out of body in a virtually-death feel, they really are going out of body. There is no natural explanation for what they're able to run across and hear. They're asleep, or clinically expressionless on an operating table, or in a morgue, and yet they're traveling out of trunk and they see things that they can written report subsequently.
I just read an interesting case past a dr. in Arizona about a woman who was not simply dead merely her body was entirely tuckered of blood. She was in a phenobarbital coma, I believe, and she was being operated on, and yet she managed to hear and run into and retain knowledge most people in the operating room. And many doctors went to that hospital where she had been, in Arizona, and studied the records. And they said there just is no concrete caption of how this woman could take known the faces and names of people in that operating room, and have heard them talking nearly things.
And there are many cases like that, actually, that are very, very well-documented, and yet you lot have these critics out in the public arena saying the near-death experience is just imagined, or it'south really caused by pheromones, or the brain is filled with endorphins and chemicals. Those explanations don't cover it. At that place are besides many mysterious cases. And with regard to ghosts, with me information technology'south a lot of conjecture.
I'm trying to figure out what it is people run across when they meet a ghost. We've got piles of testimony from the world over that people see ghosts, that they come across spirits. And it would exist foolish, I call back, to dismiss all that testimony. They see something. So I'm asking myself, what is it that they meet? Are they seeing a subtle trunk that'south fabricated up of cells that are not similar the cells we're made upwards of? And does that mean those cells maybe evolved before our cells evolved? I mean, I love studying it. I dear trying to sympathise it, and I honey reading books on the origin of life, and how nosotros've discovered forms of life we never dreamed of in thermal vents in the ocean. All of this fascinates me, and inspires me a lot.
Wired: Exercise you think you might ever just write a flat-out science fiction novel with aliens and spaceships and things like that?
Rice: Oh yeah, I'm working up to information technology. I want to do that. I love all speculative fiction. I really practice. I love the classic gothic monsters the most — the vampire, the ghost, the witch, the mummy, the werewolf. I love those the almost. I grew upwardly on those black-and-white movies at the neighborhood show with Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff. Dracula'southward Daughter was the vampire motion picture that I saw. I didn't see Bela Lugosi, he was a piffling bit too early for me. I saw him later, on the Television receiver late show when I was a young adult. I love that the most.
But I also love really corking science fiction, and I grew up reading actually dandy science fiction. It had only come up into its own as a genre in the '40s and the '50s. I retrieve my sister was an gorging reader — Alice Borchardt. She was besides a novelist, and wrote a number of werewolf novels, actually. Alice used to cheque out the science fiction books all the fourth dimension from the library, and though I couldn't continue up with her reading, I heard her talking about Robert Heinlein and Richard Matheson and all the different authors, and I read a lot of those anthologies of short stories in the fifties. And as the years passed, many of those stories turned up as Twilight Zone episodes, and they turned upward on other TV shows — The Outer Limits, shows similar that. And I recognized those stories and remembered them.
I just ordered all Richard Matheson'due south short stories because I wanted to revisit a lot of that textile. I mean, his story "The Dress of White Silk" is virtually a little vampire talking in the first person, a child vampire. I heard that story when I was perchance a 10-year-sometime or 11-yr-quondam child, and I'm certain a seminal seed was planted at that place that afterward resulted in me writing Interview With the Vampire, with the child vampire Claudia, so I owe Richard Matheson a lot.
Wired: The Wolf Gift is very much fix in the present day and there are frequent references to iPhones and iPads. Are you lot the sort of person who keeps upwardly on all the latest engineering?
Rice: I keep up on some of it. I'm kind of slow. I come up from the pre-net generation, and it's hard for me, but I use an iPhone and an iPad, and I use a reckoner, and I accept a Facebook page with 595,000 people on it, and I post on that page every day — a lot, as a affair of fact. And I certainly exercise tons of inquiry on the cyberspace. But I'thousand not up on every single thing that comes down the throughway. I'yard a writer, and I principally apply what a writer tin use, and I'yard really happy writing on my G5 Macintosh computer with a 30-inch monitor. I'k non ane of those people who tin can bear a little laptop around and write a whole novel on a tiny keyboard in a cafe. I'grand not that flexible. Not yet, anyway.
Wired: Speaking of Facebook, how would you say social media has affected your life and your career?
Rice: Well, I recollect it's wonderful. I went on Facebook a few years agone, at the suggestion actually of the publicist at Knopf. She said, "You might want to get a Facebook folio." And I did, and and then I got what's called a "fan page," where yous can take an unlimited number of people participating on your page. And for me it'due south been absolutely wonderful, considering I accept always loved my readership, and I've e'er loved hearing from them, and hearing what they recall nearly the books, and Facebook gives me the ideal way to do this. I tin go on the page and enquire a question like: "Which of my books do yous like the virtually and why? Which didn't you like and why?" And I get i,000 posts, and I get wonderful, inspiring answers. I feel very close to the people that I interact with, and I similar answering their questions too. I answer maybe 10, 20, thirty, forty questions a day on Facebook.
Wired: In addition to your writing, you also post well-nigh electric current events. What sort of response do y'all get from people to that?
Rice: Well, there'south a lot of controversy on my page. I have very strong views on things. I'grand an admitted Democrat, I'm an admitted liberal, I'yard an admitted progressive. I support the Autonomous Party because I believe in the two-party system, and we only have two, and I mail service a lot on those things, and there's a lot of argument and a lot of dissension. I think the most controversial posts that I put up at that place have to practise with organized religion and why I left it, and why I believe in separation of church and state, and how concerned I am about the attacks on the separation of church building and state. And we do have religious people coming on the page and blazing abroad, calling me everything from "demonic" to "night" to "full of detest and toxicant" for criticizing their organized religion.
But we have great discussions. On Easter Sunday, I congratulated the gays of the earth on having come then far in their civil rights revolution, and I said, "You have really risen from centuries of oppression, and Happy Easter." Well, boy, did that ever crusade a tempest. I mean, we had people flight on the page similar banshees, or furies, maxim, "How dare y'all use a Christian vacation to express good wishes to gays." Well, we had quite an statement, and it'southward nevertheless going on. People are still coming on the folio and volunteering comments on this, fifty-fifty though the threads have now sort of gone down the page and been buried.
"They say, 'All you e'er practice is post against religion.' Well, that's really not true."
Merely the majority of what we talk almost actually is fiction, television receiver and poetry. Our critics may not believe that, but it really is what we talk about. They say, "All you ever exercise is post against organized religion." Well, that'south really not true. I talk a lot virtually this beingness the Gilt Age for fantasy fiction and fantasy film. I've never seen anything similar it in my lifetime.
Idiot box right now is so rich with not but fantasy drama merely costume drama, historical drama — which is very similar in a lot of ways. I mean, Game of Thrones is merely fabulous. I'thousand a dandy fan of that. I've got the books. I'm going to read them. I'm totally into the HBO series, and I've never seen speculative fantasies, supernatural fantasy, all of this, I've never seen it done with such loftier production values, such great actors, and such great scriptwriters and directors. You lot know, we always had some good fantasy films, simply this is really a bang-up fourth dimension in our history.
Wired: Your son Christopher is a novelist, and he'due south as well gay and writes for The Abet. Were yous always this supportive toward gay rights, or did having Christopher equally your son affect your attitudes at all?
Rice: He had no event whatsoever, considering I was e'er completely supportive of gays. I mean, from the time I got mutual sense in my early twenties. I was always very attracted to gay people and the gay aesthetic, if there is really a dissever gay aesthetic. I found that I had a lot in common with them, and that I responded the aforementioned style to movies and musicals and singers and novels as they did. I had more than in common with them than I had often with directly people.
I admired their sensual dimension, and their frankness about it. And when I wrote Interview With the Vampire, I didn't actually intend for information technology to exist a gay allegory, but it was considered a gay allegory, and some of the best reviews of information technology that were ever written were by gay people who saw it as a gay apologue, and that was earlier Christopher was always born, and I was very honored by all that. In fact, I would say the gays probably kept Interview With the Vampire alive, on the backlist, when it might have died otherwise. I think a lot of it was their enthusiasm for the book. It had kind of an cloak-and-dagger life there for a while, and then when I wrote The Vampire Lestat, gay readers were amid the first to encompass that book.
Wired: You mentioned that you've had some frustration in recent years toward religion and moved away from it. Could you talk about how that happened?
Rice: Well, it's such a vast subject. The bottom line of it was I returned to the Cosmic Church in 1998 in the midst of a conversion, and I idea everything would be fine, everything would piece of work out. I was happy to be believing in God once more. I was happy to exist feeling that, to know that experience, and I still believe in God at this moment. Only during the 12 years that I was a Cosmic and a Christian, and a Christian writer, I really studied the belief system. I studied its foundational documents, the evolution of its doctrines, why it taught different things that troubled me, and things that didn't trouble me, and I studied its history and its influence and activities in the nowadays fourth dimension. And I had to leave it.
I left it because I felt ultimately it was a very quack and dishonorable belief system, that information technology was founded on contradictions and absurdities and out-and-out lies, and that the vast majority of Christians, every bit far as I could see, really didn't know their own religion, didn't know its history, didn't really know its foundational documents, and did not desire to talk most it critically in whatsoever way, and even so these same people would come into the public arena in America and spend millions of dollars to try to forestall gay people from getting same-sex union in the state of California. And I was pretty disgusted by the whole thing.
I came away assertive that I didn't know at all whether religion was a good thing. I'yard not certain I can say it is a proficient thing or that information technology's washed more than good than evil. I think maybe information technology's done more evil than good. And I think the search for God, the honest search for God, led me completely away from religion.
Wired: There's a scene in The Wolf Gift where Reuben is staring upwards at the stars and musing about the nature of God, and his ruminations there well-nigh seem to be a cosmic pantheism or something. Did any of that reflect your own feelings?
Rice: Oh yes, very much so, and you can imagine my shock when people said that it was "Christian" and that they didn't like it. I thought, "What? Are you kidding me?" The hero never utters a Christian give-and-take in the entire book. He has no Christian behavior at all. And however they're proverb this, plain, because I was once a Christian.
Wired: One of the characters in The Wolf Gift, Reuben'southward brother, is a Cosmic priest. Why did you decide to include him in the story?
Rice: Reuben goes to meet Jim and tells him what'due south happening because he can bind Jim with the seal of the confessional. Jim is the ane friend he can turn to who cannot tell anybody what Reuben has to say. He can't tell anyone Reuben is the man-wolf. Anybody else would get an accessory after the fact to the murders that Reuben has committed, but Reuben can tell Jim and bind him with that seal, and Jim tin't tell anyone and could never exist held answerable for not telling anyone. So that's what was driving that part of the plot for me.
Reuben had a need to talk to somebody about this, and I too idea a Catholic priest was going to be an interesting person to talk about information technology morally. And frankly a supernatural hero that doesn't have a moral concern nearly ripping people to shreds isn't very interesting to me. If anything there's much, much, more than religious talk in my vampire novels than there is in The Wolf Gift, because these questions of correct and wrong have e'er galvanized me in my piece of work. You know, as the novel goes on, The Wolf Gift separates Reuben from the rest of his family. He remains in contact with them in the novel, and they are a problem. He loves them and needs them, simply they are besides a problem. He tin can't tell them what'due south going down. There's no style he can put that responsibility on any member of his family other than Jim.
Wired: I saw some comments online where people were maxim that they thought that Reuben felt a piddling bit harder to identify with because he comes from a privileged background. What did yous think about that?
Rice: I was totally amazed when I read that. I mean, these are the same people who take the fact that Louis in Interview With the Vampire is a plantation owner, Lestat is a French blueblood, Armand has wealth, they all have wealth. I've never written about everyone that didn't have wealth. And the Mayfair Witches, they're multibillionaires. The vampires take tons of gilt. And somehow these people didn't like Reuben because he had a trust fund. I was amazed.
Wired: I was thinking that information technology would have fabricated it kind of hard if he were working three jobs and had a family unit. Then if he turns into a werewolf, people are going to notice.
Rice: Absolutely. I would have get and then bogged down in the economic realities of hiding his status, I wouldn't take known where to begin. I mean, it was very natural to me to deal with a person who was gifted and empowered, and clear some obstacles out of his path so he could deal with his transformation. But I'll tell you, I retrieve information technology's this: I think these readers find it hard to take a contemporary character who's rich. They tin can take a historical character — somebody riding around in a railroad vehicle dressed in velvet. Only they're just finding it very, very hard to bargain with it in gimmicky times. I mean, we've ever had a terrible bias in American Literature confronting rich people. High literature in America for years has been middle class almost to the point of dowdiness. It's obsessed with the issues of the center grade. And people who write well-nigh the rich accept never had an like shooting fish in a barrel time of it in American literature, unless there's a lot of irony and criticism in their work.
Wired: Supernatural monsters like vampires, werewolves, and witches are oft associated with demonic forces, which doesn't seem to be the case in this book. Is that something you were going for?
Rice: Definitely. Fifty-fifty in the vampire novels, they're not demonic. They can't find any Devil to take orders from. They're on this planet trying to puzzle this out just like the rest of u.s.. And that's why I recall the vampire is such a powerful metaphor for the outcast in all of us. You know, if he'due south got all the answers, if he sees the Devil, if he responds magically to garlic and crosses, well, that'due south not as interesting to me as a vampire going around request questions and trying to find answers just like nosotros practise … and the same with Reuben.
And one thing that was really fun for me in working with Reuben is Reuben isn't as tortured as my vampires. I call up this is one reason why some of my readers are merely not liking The Wolf Souvenir as much equally they similar The Vampire Chronicles, because they like that torture. Only I wanted something else. I wanted a more than optimistic, stiff, affirmative hero this time, who doesn't say he's damned, you lot know? Who says, "I want to find out what this is nearly, and what the evolutionary history is behind this — where nosotros came from, why we do this, and what are the risks here?" I was really ready for that, some affirmation. I mean, I've done the regretful vampire to death in 12 books.
Wired: Do y'all recall yous're going to write any more than stories nearly werewolves?
Rice: Oh yeah, I want to go on with Reuben. I desire to explore some other mythologies and questions and really become into all kinds of bug. I don't know if a book is going to exist a series until I'm finished with the book. I take to run into what happens in my listen afterward. And I accept so many things I want to do with Reuben and the other characters that I'grand pretty sure this will be a serial.
Wired: Are there plans to turn any more than of your stories or novels into movies?
Rice: Well, The Tale of the Body Thief, with Lestat, has been optioned past Imagine, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's company. And they're working on information technology, they're developing a script correct at present for a new Lestat movie. And I promise they'll be moving to a studio shortly for backing and begin talking almost casting in some serious fashion. The Wolf Gift is prompting a lot of interest and a lot of discussions, and at that place are meetings scheduled I think this very twenty-four hours in Hollywood, and then possibly I'll hear something good on that later today. I don't know. You know, these talks can go on for years. I mean, information technology's been how long since the last movie based on my Vampire Chronicles? And it's exhausting. It takes so much fourth dimension. It's never been rapid burn for me. My works are, I think, a piffling as well difficult to interpret.
Wired: Are there any new or upcoming projects that you'd similar to mention?
Rice: No, just that I'm going to go right on writing. The side by side novel won't be about Reuben, just in that location will be a novel right after that that will be about Reuben and the wolf. But it's too early for me to talk well-nigh my adjacent book. Information technology might autumn apart. If I talk too much most these books and and then they don't work out, yous know, I'll wish I hadn't. But it's a supernatural novel, and information technology's near the classic monsters, and I'm deep into it already.
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