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The Anne Rice book you won’t want to read? Posted at 7:43 PM by Rico Simpkins

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Anne RiceBritish Fantasy, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominee, Anne Rice, is one of the most commercially successful authors in the WWEnd database.  Why, then, would her next book not qualify to win any SF awards?  Well, for starters, it isn’t a novel, and it isn’t SF (speculative fiction, for those not geeky enough to already know).

That isn’t why her fans are up in arms, however.  This is:  The book pretty much explains why she will never write another Anne Rice vampire thriller again.

Yes, that’s right, Anne is out  of the Goth business (has been for a while, too).  The Detroit Metro Times reviews her latest, entitled Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession.  The autobiographical treatise details her (re)conversion to Catholicism and her abandonment of all things goth.

Personally, I think Catholicism is plenty goth, and vampyric tales are usually best told with heavy doses of the highly ritualized religion, which happens to be my own.  Nevertheless, I’m sure plenty of WWEnd readers have opinions on this.  Religion and goth horror… do they mix?