“A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.”

American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction

Anne Rice was an American author who wrote Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for The Vampire Chronicles, the book series that made her a major figure in modern vampire fiction. She later adapted the first volume of that series into the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, which was a commercial success. Her work is closely associated with atmospheric, dark fiction and with stories that draw on religious themes as well as the supernatural.