The slayer chronicles first kill summary

And she had the idea that naming a woman Howard was going to give that woman an unusual advantage in the world.вЂќ Yet, despite the eccentric name, the very first day of school she told a nun her name was Anne and no one corrected it. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad woman, a bit of a genius, and a great deal of a great teacher. My fatherвЂ™s name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do. As far as the unusual name is concerned, Rice has said вЂњWell, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. Whether you loved or hated it, itвЂ™s hard not to contend with Interview with the Vampire when talking about late twentieth-century vampire literature, film, or TV.ДЄnne Rice was born Howard Allen Frances OвЂ™Brien in 1941. And, some would argue, restore a sense of eroticism and sensuality to the genre.

While the vampire might have been brooding and Byronic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a symbol of the aristocracy loosening its grip on modern Europe, RiceвЂ™s influence would create our contemporary understanding of the vampire tale. It was among the first of its kind to take a modern stance to the vampire tale, such as coping with the existential horror of living forever when oneвЂ™s loved ones have grown old and died, or the ethics surrounding drinking human blood. Apart from Bram StokerвЂ™s Dracula, thereвЂ™s hardly a more famous vampire novel than Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.

The slayer chronicles first kill summary