Anne Rice in general Reviews

Anne Rice is one of the few women writing in the horror genre. She has left a striking mark on the face of vampire fiction with her vampire chronicles, but ther eis more to her work than this better known collection. Born in 1941, Rice married quite young (Stan Rice, whose poetry is often quoted in her books). In the 1960s, she had a ...  Read the complete review

Up until last week I associated Anne Rice with vampires and since I'm not a huge horror fan, I hadn't read more than a couple of her books. But that was then, and this is now. I needed something to read and found among my bosses books through which I was browsing, "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty". This was written about 20 years ...  Read the complete review

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans. She was christened Howard Allen O'Brien, after her father. Not surprisingly, she hated the name and from her first year at school chose to be known as Anne. Her father worked for the post office, and her mother, was an alcoholic and strict Catholic, and brought Anne up as a devout Catholic. Anne and ...  Read the complete review

If you have not yet fallen upon an Anne Rice masterpeice I can only assume that you are not a fan of the fantasy/horror genre or that you have been living on Mars. Anne is an author with a unique style. Her character are almost solely anti-heros and her tales intertwine deliciously with one another. I started, somewhat accidentally with ...  Read the complete review

Howard Allen O’Brien was born in New Orleans on 4th October, 1941. She is best known as Anne Rice , and of course for her gripping novels about Vampires, which she calls the Vampire Chronicles. In 1957, her family moved to Texas, and here she met her husband, Stan Rice, at High School. They were married in 1961, and a year later ...  Read the complete review