There are few authors as deserving of an afterlife as Anne Rice. Decades before the Twilight and True Blood craze of the 2000s, the writer helped popularize the very idea that death could be the beginning, not the end, of one’s journey. Starting with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Rice published 13 novels collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles—a lurid, macabre, romantic saga of immortality as a double-edged sword.
