100000@namaste.cc.columbia.edu> Anne Rice have about her and her work. It provides information that's useful for both newsgroups and for talking with other fans in general. To: Mike Ely Archive-name: books/anne-rice-faq INTRODUCTION Welcome one and all to a special Memnoch edition of the Anne Rice FAQ! As you probably know by now, July is *the* month for Memnoch so I, being the wonderful FAQ maintainer that I am, have acquired information about Anne's book tour which is the biggest change to this particular version of the FAQ. You'll also find that quite a few answers to old FAQ questions come with answers that Anne herself gave in Commotion Strange #3? Is this because Anne saw this FAQ? No. This is just because these really are frequently asked questions and Anne was nice enough to answer them. I know, I know, shut up and get on with the Memnoch info.! You'll find the information that was sent to me from Anne's publisher (and thus how I know that this is the correct information) under the questions about Memnoch. But first... TWO VERY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: 1. This FAQ covers questions that are asked by both those new to Anne Rice and by those who have been fans for years. Because of this, some of the answers to questions will contain SPOILERS for some of the books. Since I cannot predict what will and won't be a spoiler for you and since it would be annoying to write the word SPOILER with every answer I instead tried to keep the questions visually distinct from the answers. This way, you can read the question and decide if you want to know the answer without inadvertently ruining a plot twist for yourself. 2. In my Internet travels I have found that quite a few FAQs tend to be dry and humorless. This tends to ruin the fun of the FAQ both for the reader (namely, you) and the writer (namely, me). I've tried to avoid this as best I can by writing this FAQ as though I were talking to you instead of just typing it out. However, this means that sometimes I will write things that are tongue-in-cheek and I will also write things that are my opinion. But I did make absolutely sure that the facts I write are accurate. So, please keep in mind that if it sounds like a fact (such as "Anne Rice wrote some books.") it's a fact and if it sounds like an opinion (such as "They were all really good.") it's an opinion and should be taken as such. Also keep in mind that all opinions are mine (Laura Troise) unless otherwise stated so don't try to blame anyone else for them . (More on credits and copyright information at the end of the FAQ) With that said, let's get started. =) MINI ALT.BOOKS.ANNE-RICE FAQ: **So what's alt.books.anne-rice? Ah, a.b.a-r, where the women are women, the men are occasionally women (don't ask) and the chickens are frightened. a.b.a-r is an internet newsgroup that was created for Anne Rice fans to have a place to get together with other fans and let the mayhem loose. On a.b.a-r you'll find threads about the books, the movies, stories, characters and more non sequitors than you can shake a stick at. **How do I get a.b.a-r? If you have access to usenet, then you can probably subscribe to a.b.a-r. Ask the person who knows the most about your specific computer system (which, btw, isn't me as I'm only barely familiar with my own specific computer system) to set you up. And if they refuse, you are well within your legal rights to throw a temper tantrum. **Does a.b.a-r have any cool unofficial mottos or member names? I'm glad you asked. Those on a.b.a-r tackled this very question themselves and the results where as follows: Member names: Ricean Scholars The Great Family Ricecakes Anne's Children Anne-archists The Outcasts The a.b.a-r bunch The Weirdos Rice-tafarians Darling dears Mottos: "Bite me" "Normal? Us?" "What are we? Trekkers??" "They are NOT gay" "Yes they ARE" "Antonio, what's with the hair?" "There are no such things as vampires" "The slightly confused gender group" "We're always looking for new blood" **Sounds amazingly cool! I'm subscribing right now! Is there anything I should remember before I start to post? Aside from normal common courtesy, just remember that not everyone has read every book (and that includes Interview) so be sure to include those SPOILER warnings where appropriate. ANNE RICE FAQ: **Who is Anne Rice anyway? Anne Rice, born Howard Allen (no, she didn't have a sex change, it's just a name) O'Brien on Oct. 4, 1941 is the wife of Stan Rice and the mother of Christopher Rice. Known for her lush, gothic writing style, she is most famous for her series The Vampire Chronicles, though she has written many other books. Anne's popularity comes from writing books that draw the reader into the time and place of the story. She has also been very influential in changing the old myths and stories of the supernatural (Newsweek cited Anne's work as the reason why the movie of Bram Stoker's Dracula deviated so much from the original book). **So what has Anne written? Here is the list of the books Anne has written with their dates of publication. Books that are in a series have been kept together and put under their series name. Under the name of Anne Rice: The Feast of All Saints (1979) Cry to Heaven (1982) The Mummy (1989) The Vampire Chronicles: Interview With the Vampire (1976) The Vampire Lestat (1985) The Queen of the Damned (1988) The Tale of the Body Thief (1992) Memnoch the Devil (1995) Lives of the Mayfair Witches: The Witching Hour (1990) Lasher (1993) Taltos (1994) Under the name of Anne Rampling: Exit to Eden (1985) Belinda (1986) Under the name of A. N. Roquelaure: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983) Beauty's Punishment (1984) Beauty's Release (1985) Upcoming books: Servant of the Bones Morrigan **These names are a bit wordy, is there a shorter way of referring to them? Yes there is, but only for some of the books. Others either have short enough names or just aren't talked about enough for a shorthand form to be necessary. Here's how some of the books are referred to either in writing or conversation (and how I'll write them in this FAQ): Feast of All Saints--FOAS Cry to Heaven--CtH Exit to Eden--EtoE The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy--the Beauty books The Witching Hour--TWH (Though this series is known as the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, for some reason this title has not caught on. It is referred to as the TWH series) Interview With the Vampire--Interview or IWTV (Note: some people will call IWTV "Vampire" but this is discouraged by most as the word "Vampire" can refer to far too many things in the series for the meaning to be clear.) The Vampire Lestat--Lestat, TVL The Queen of the Damned--Queeen, TQD, QotD The Tale of the Body Thief--Body Thief, TotBT Memnoch the Devil--Memnoch, Mem., MtD The Vampire Chronicles--VampChron (Sometimes it's written as VC but this often gets confused with The Vampire Companion which is called VC more often than VampChron is so VampChron is more common. In this FAQ, VC will refer to the Companion, which I'll talk about later, only). Servant of the Bones (upcoming)--SotB Anne's newsletter, Commotion Strange, will be written as CS with the appropriate letter number besides it whenever I'm quoting from it directly. **What about other things like her short stories, audiotapes of the books and what have you? For that you may thank Cheryl who tirelessly gathered the following information. I'm quoting directly from her letters to me here and things within [] are mine. HOW TO GET ON THE ANNE RICE LISTSERV Send a message to: listserv@psuvm.psu.edu Don't put anything in the subject. For the text, put only: SUBSCRIBE ANNERICE firstname lastname You should get a confirmation request soon after, and can follow the instructions there. WHERE TO GET AUTOGRAPHED COPIES OF ANNE'S BOOKS Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: (504) 895-2266 Fax: (504) 895-0111 ANNE RICE VIDEO It's called "Anne Rice: Birth of the Vampire." It's basically a biography of Anne, and has interviews with Anne, Stan, Christopher, and other relatives and friends. It doesn't have anything on the IWTV movie. You get to see Anne's house and several of the other New Orleans locations. It was available in stores (I think they offered it with a paperback copy of IWTV), and was shown on Lifetime. [I've been given the info. about two places that sell this video so I decided to include them both. The Video Catalog includes a paperback copy of IWTV, but I don't know if QPBC does the same.] 1. Quality Paperback Book Club (QPBC) Camp Hill, PA 17012-0001 Order # 429535. $19.98 plus S&H 2. The Video Catalog P.O. Box 64267 St. Paul, MN 55164-0267 1-800-733-2232 Item # 40212. $14.98 plus $3 S&H IWTV SOUNDTRACK Contains only the music composed by Elliot Goldenthal, and "Sympathy for the Devil" performed by Guns N' Roses. Contents: Libera Me, Born to Darkness Part I, Lestat's Tarantella, Madeleine's Lament, Claudia's Allegro Agitato, Escape to Paris, Marche Funebre, Lestat's Recitative, Santiago's Waltz, Theatre des Vampires, Armand's Seduction, Plantation Pyre, Forgotten Lore, Scent of Death, Abduction & Absolution, Armand Rescues Louis, Louis' Revenge, Born to Darkness Part II, Sympathy for the Devil. [Music that was in the movie, but not included in the soundtrack is as follows (thanks to Cynthia Hoffman who I'm quoting): Handel Harp Concerto in B Flat, opus 4, no. 6 Antonio Soler Harpsichord Sonata in F Sharp Haydn harpsichord sonata in e flat major, adagio e cantabile (HOB XVI/49) the Handel is what played in the background while Claudia was growing up; the 3d movement of the Haydn played in paris Beware; Fenton really did adapt some of these, so they sound different than they did in the movie (but still recognizable)] IWTV SCRIPTS Book City Collectables 6631 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028 tel. 213-466-0120 fax. 213-962-6742 You can get a copy of either Anne's script or Neil Jordan's. The scripts are $15 apiece with a $3.50 postage charge for the first script and $2.50 for each one after that. CA res. add a $1.24 charge per script. GRAPHIC NOVELS I know for sure that IWTV and TVL were made into 12-part "graphic novels" by Innovation (I have these). I've heard that QOTD, The Mummy, and TWH were also made into comics by the same company, but I haven't seen them myself. I've heard that Innovation went out of business a while ago, but the comics can still be found in comic shops. The 12 issues of TVL were also put together into a book. I bought one the other week; it's called "Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat: A Graphic Novel." Based on the novel by Anne Rice. Adapted and designed by Faye Perozich. Painted by Daerick Gross. It's softcover, $25, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-37394-4. I really like these drawings, much better than the ones for IWTV. [After Innovation stopped, a company called Millenium took up the books and produced graphic novels of The Mummy, Queen of the Damned and The Witching Hour. I've read interviews with Anne in which she is asked about the Innovation novels and she said that she wasn't too fond of them as they made her vampires look like effeminate British rock stars. But you can certainly judge for yourself.] NEW BOOK OF CRITICISM It's called "Anne Rice" and it's by Bette B. Roberts of Westfield State College. New York : Twayne Publishers, 1994. 173 pages. Hardcover. ISBN 0-8057-3961-0 Still haven't read it, but it looks like it summarizes each of her works through TOTBT and links them to the Gothic tradition. ANNE'S MAGAZINE ARTICLES "The Art of the Vampire at Its Peak in the Year 1876" Playboy, January 1979 "David Bowie and the End of Gender" Vogue, November 1983 "The Master of Rampling Gate" Redbook, February 1984 (Also in The Ultimate Dracula) AUDIOBOOKS These are from Random House Audiobooks, and I think they are all abridged: IWTV: read by F. Murray Abraham TVL: Michael York QOTD: Kate Nelligan (Lestat read by David Purdham) TOTBT: Richard E. Grant [There is also an unabridged audio version of TVL: The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice Recorded Books, Inc. (1-800-638-1304) Narrated by Frank Muller 16 casettes/23.5 hours Recorded by arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-7887-0098-7] TWH: Lindsay Crouse Lasher: Joe Morton Taltos: Tim Curry The Mummy: Michael York Exit to Eden: Gillian Anderson and Gil Bellows [You X-philes will recognize Gillian as Dana Scully] Feast of All Saints: Courtney B. Vance Cry to Heaven: Tim Curry These are from Simon & Schuster: Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: Amy Brenneman Beauty's Punishment: Elizabeth Montgomery Beauty's Release: Elizabeth Montgomery Christian Keiber as Laurent [Yes, *the* Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched. ·_ I had a hard time believing it myself.] **What about WWW sites? I know of a few which are worth a browse through: http://www.ee.pdx.edu:80/~caseyh/horror/new/new.html This one is full of .jpgs and .wavs from the IWTV movie. http://www.wimsey.com/~bmiddlet/vampyre/ This one had a lot of vampire things in general. I didn't have time to do more than a quick peek so all I was able to find in relation to Anne was a picture of Lestat from the movie, but perhaps someone more familiar with this site could let me know if there's anything else there. http://skynet.ul.ie/~chopper/ann_rice.html Though it misspells Anne's name in the address, this one had a great deal about Anne in it. From the quick look I took, I was able to find a copy of the Mayfair Family Tree, an interview with Anne in Playboy and various .gifs from the movie. http://www.xroads.com/pages/gpalmer/gpalmer.html This one was set up by Greg Palmer of a.b.a-r fame. It not only includes the FAQ but various things about Anne and a few things specifically for those who are part of the a.b.a-r group. Definately worth a look see. http://www.eskimo.com/~ash Created by Heather who is also of a.b.a-r fame. It primarily consists of the various works created by a.b.a-r members. Also worth a look see. http://www.singnet.com.sg/~edwinlau/vampire.html Created by Edwin Lau, this site has, amongst other things, summaries of the nature of Anne's vampires, summaries of the history of Anne's vampires, and connections to other vampire and Anne related sites. http://ucunix.san.uc.edu/~elymt Created by Mike Ely, this site is dedicated to Anne Rice and also contains updated copies of this FAQ. **How much of Anne's real life is in her books? Quite a bit actually. From the Mayfair house on First Street to the deck of cards that Lestat uses to play Solitaire, things from Anne's life turn up everywhere in her books. The most notable example of this is the character of Claudia who was based on Anne's daughter Michele (Sept. 21, 1966-Aug. 5, 1972) who died of leukemia. It was Michele's death that inspired Anne to write Interview. **Why do so many of Anne's characters end up in New Orleans or San Francisco? Anne lived in both NO and SF for quite some time and she's very fond of them (esp. NO where she grew up and lives today). She brings her characters there because of both her fondness and familiarity with the towns. **Does Anne really believe in vampires and witches? Anne has said that, while she does not believe in vampires, she does not rule out the existence of witches or ghosts. In fact, her house on First Street is supposedly haunted, though Anne claims she has never seen the ghost in question. **Why do Anne's characters use outdated PC programs? You'd think they could afford better. From CS#3: "Guys, why are you always asking me why my characters don't work on State of the Art Computer equipment. They do! When Lestat wrote his bio, he was working on what HARDWARE was out that year. And Mona had the top of the line HARDWARE when LASHER was written? I mean, I don't get it. Don't you guys like WORDSTAR?" I'm not sure if Anne realizes that our complaints are about the *software*, but assuming that she does, I'll answer her question by saying that no one hates Wordstar in the sense that they were attacked by it as a child, but that it is an old and very plain program which makes it hard to believe that Lestat, consummate materialist that he is, wouldn't move on to something which costs a lot more and has more bells and whistles for him to play with. **Why doesn't Anne write about characters who aren't white? From CS#3: "ON AFRO-AMERICAN CHARACTERS IN MY SUPERNATURAL WORLD. Maybe I'm just not sure enough of myself to put them in. I'm not sure I really know what they would think or feel. I don't know." **Can you give me a list of articles about Anne? I could, but it would take half my lifetime. There are many, many, *many* articles either about Anne or her work or just quotes from her that they are just too numerous to list. A good rule of thumb to finding them in your library is to put in the keyword 'vampire.' This will get you the bulk of articles that somehow refer to Anne as anyone who talks about vampires tends to cite her in some shape or form. **Is there a biography about Anne? There is. It's called Prism of the Night and it's written by Katherine Ramsland. (See also: Should I buy/read VC or Prism of the Night?) **How can I contact Anne? Anne has recently installed a phone line in her house for fans to call in and give their opinions (good or bad) about her work. The number is (504) 522-8634. Once you call you will get an answering machine on which you can leave a message for Anne. (Some have called and been able to speak to Anne herself!) While Anne obviously cannot respond to each call, she promises to listen to every message. **What's this I hear about a newsletter? Anne has decided to send out a newsletter entitled "Commotion Strange" to those fans who are interested in getting it. If you are one of those fans, send a letter or postcard to: Anne Rice 1239 First St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Anne will pay for the postage of the newsletter so you only have to include your address. Anne has not set any schedule for the distribution of the newsletter (meaning, it won't necessarily be every week/month/etc.) so expect delivery to be irregular. **Where can I send fan mail to Anne? The above address will work just fine for that. **Will Anne send me a personal response that I can then gloat about to all my friends? From CS#3: "ANSWERING PERSONAL LETTERS. Can't do it anymore. Just downright impossible. Occasionally I have a minute, but my life now is a desperate fight to find a few hours to be alone with this machine, writing on my work. what distracts me is not only continuous requests for publicity, but my great and loving family whom I enjoy and want to spend time with, and wouldn't give up for the world. But I have become OVERBOOKED, there is no doubt about it." **Hey! That address is for Anne's house! I can go visit her now, can't I? In theory, yes. But please keep in mind something that she said in CS#2: "Our addresses are well known, including that of St. Elizabeth's Orphanage. But do remember, please; the family lives in our houses; they are private residences. And though we love you, we can not come to the door, or meet with people personally. We thank you for your understanding. We do have a great deal of security; men on patrol; dogs, all of that. But in general, we have found that our readers are the kindest, gentlest people in the world, and we are honored that sometimes you want to stop on the corner of First and Chestnuts,or of Napoleon and Prytania. We love to look at New Orleans houses too, as always have." Along those lines, let me add that Anne has said that it becomes very hard for her to write her books when fans come to the door and distract her. Plus, Mojo and Lestat's mastiffs were based on Anne's dogs so do you really want to chance it? **Does Anne have an e-mail address? From CS#3: "REGARDING E-MAIL AND INTERNET ETC. I'm not hooked up to anything, and have no modem....I speak sometimes through my friend Britton Trice on the Internet. Anyone else claiming to be me or to speak for me is not telling the truth. Britton Trice is my sole connection." **Who is this Lestat guy and what's the big deal about him? Lestat de Lioncourt a.k.a. The Brat Prince a.k.a. "Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!" is the main character in the VampChron series. He first appears in Interview as the one who makes Louis (the narrator of Interview) into a vampire. TVL is the biography of Lestat so I won't get into that here. The big deal about Lestat is twofold. One, he goes against all previous concepts of what vampires are like. He is not some mindless monster but rather a fun-loving, sympathetic, pain-in-the-ass guy whom most of the other characters would sleep with if they had the chance. Two, he's Anne's favorite character (and this is out of all her works, not just VampChron). Whereas Louis *is* Anne, Lestat is what Anne would like to be. **How do you pronounce Lestat's name? There are three schools of thought on this: Less-tat (rhymes with 'hat') Luh-stat (also rhymes with 'hat') Luh-staht (ah sounding like the 'o' in 'dot' or 'hot') Anne tends to use the third form, but don't feel that that's what you have to use. Although there has been ongoing debate about how to say Lestat's name (usually beginning with a preface of "Well I studied French/lived in France/know how to French kiss and *I* think..."), you don't have to be intimidated by it. There is no "Official" way of saying Lestat's name. Just say whatever feels more comfortable to you. So long as others don't openly giggle when you say it, you're doing fine. **You said that many of the characters wanted to sleep with Lestat, does this mean that vampires have sex? Nope. While Anne's writing gets a little vague about this, Anne herself is not. When asked point-blank if her vampires could have sex she said no. Once a human becomes a vampire, they are no longer capable of sex and moreover, they're not interested. Louis put it best when he said that the pleasure from sex is but a pale shadow of the killing. Vampires get physical pleasure from drinking blood and killing. Of course, this does not keep them from getting involved in some pretty heavy petting, but that's another story. **Are all of Anne's vampires gay? No. And neither are they all straight. Vampires are, by nature, bisexual (meaning that they can fall madly in love with someone of either gender). Some of Anne's vampires were bi before they got the Dark Gift but all of them are bi after. This is an advantage for them as it's so hard for them to find companionship that having a problem with the gender of someone is really setting their standards too high. The reason why it looks like they're all gay is that many of the couples are made up of two men. This is because it took Anne a while to create some strong female characters for her strong male characters to hook up with. No more, no less. **Wait a minute! I'm in the middle of QotD and it just mentioned Santino! Didn't Louis chop him up into little pieces the size of Smith Brothers' Cough Lozenges in Interview? You're making the common error of confusing Santino with Santiago. Santiago is the vampire that made fun of Louis (doing that annoying mime routine, etc.) and helped to trap and kill Claudia. Santino is the vampire who headed up the coven that took Armand away from Marius (this is mentioned in TVL) and, in QotD, he helps Pandora find Marius and bring him to the Sonoma Compound. **I think I just found another major continuity error. In IWTV, Louis says that the last time he saw Lestat was in the spring before his interview. But in TVL Lestat says he was underground at that time. Is Lestat lying through his fanged teeth? Believe it or not, no he isn't. *Louis* is the one who is lying about this moment. This is because, while she was getting ready to write TVL, Anne realized that if Louis' version was true, it would ruin what Anne wanted Lestat's story to be (his coming up in 1984 and so on). So the Brat Prince is telling the truth. Go fig. **So what is that Companion thing anyway? The Vampire Companion (VC), like Anne's biography, was written by Katherine Ramsland. It's an encyclopedia of sorts for VampChron and offers such things as pictures (not of the characters though), maps, summaries of plots and trivia like what was written in the first draft of Interview that didn't make the final draft. Anne helped Katherine put it together, but the main work is Katherine's. **Should I buy/read VC or Prism of the Night? This question cannot be answered without giving an opinion of the two books. Originally I only included my opinion of the books but this caused something of a stir on alt.books.anne- rice since it was felt that giving only one opinion put too much of a slant on things. Since I agreed with that sentiment (and since Ian offered so nicely) here you will find two differing opinions about VC and Prism of the Night. Please keep in mind that these are only opinions and you can take them or leave them. If you have any questions, please direct them to the person who wrote each section. Ian Wellock: I liked VC. It has three main sections, the Entries A to Z, which covers a total of 484 pages (!), a Time Line, which starts at 'around 4000 B.C.' and goes up to 1992, the time of TotBT's publication, and also a Vampire Atlas, with some fascinating maps which is a nice touch for those of us mere mortals who have never been to New Orleans. There are a few errors, but I regard these as minor. (Details can be had upon request). For me, far and away the best reason for reading this book is the collection and cross-referencing of all the little items into many different subject areas, which, if you can't remember when a certain character made an appearance, or find out more about the Talamasca, is invaluable. I even like to sit down and just read the thing, and thereby pick up little snippets of information that perhaps were not immediately obvious. Laura Troise: I didn't like VC. For all the good that it offers (what is listed above) it offers a lot of garbage as well. It should be retitled "Katherine Ramsland's Interpretation of the Vampire Chronicles." Her opinion invades *everything*. This would be fine (after all, *my* opinion is all over this FAQ) except that *she gets things wrong while giving her opinion*. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy and has studied Jungian psychology but there's a very strong Freudian view throughout the book. She rips apart characters that she doesn't like and ignores what really happened in the books. Plus she gets basic facts wrong (like the names of characters) so you never know what bits of information to trust. VC is a fine book but it is in no way the "Official Guide to the Vampire Chronicles." It contains too many errors to be officially anything. As for Prism of the Night, this is a slightly better book in comparison. Katherine's interpretation of Anne's books is still in there but you can pretty much ignore it while reading about Anne's life. The only problem is that Katherine is not a good writer (and I've had published authors agree with me on this) so you have to slog through a lot of bad prose to get to the gems of Anne's life. Anne herself had this to say about Prism of the Night in CS#3: "On my life: because you ask. There is Katherine Ramsland's PRISM OF THE NIGHT, a full scale biography with which I cooperated, but which I never sought to control. It's out there in paperback, and is fairly up to date. I have not read all of it. I mean it's my life, for God's sakes! But my father did read the first edition and approved of it before he died. Good enough for me." Anne gave no indication one way or the other about whether she had read as little of the Companion book as she did of Prism. **Isn't Prism of the Night out of date by now? From what I've been told the current paperback copy of Prism of the Night has been updated to include things about TotBT, Lasher and Taltos (the original hardcover stopped before TotBT). **Has Katherine put together any other books about Anne? Katherine has also put together an Anne Rice trivia book. However, I have yet to hear a definite opinion about this book so I couldn't say if it was a good buy or not. **What is Moon Over Bourbon Street? Moon Over Bourbon Street is a song that Sting wrote for both his Bring on the Night and Dream of the Blue Turtles albums. This song is about Interview from the point of view of someone who is unaware of Lestat's take on what happened. Many fans feel it should be included in the soundtrack of the movie of Interview but, sadly, it is not. **What's the "Armand and Daniel" song? The "Armand and Daniel" song is a common way for those who have read QotD and have listened to Nine Inch Nails' album Pretty Hate Machine to refer to the song which is actually titled "The Only Time." I don't know exactly why this occurs (my personal guess is it's because of the line about the devil in the back of his car) but it does. It's important to note, however, that while Trent Reznor (NIN) is an Anne Rice fan, there is no indication that this song was meant to be about Armand and Daniel. **Can you give me some info. on who did what with the IWTV movie? Sure, here it is: Interview With the Vampire The Vampire Chronicles Geffen Pictures Tom Cruise: Lestat de Lioncourt Brad Pitt: Louis de Pointe du Lac Stephen Rea: Santiago Antonio Banderas: Armand ·_ Christian Slater: Daniel Molloy (interviewer) Kirsten Dunst: Claudia Screenplay by: Anne Rice Directed by: Neil Jordan Produced by: Stephen Woolley and David Geffen Music composed by: Elliot Goldenthal **What was with all the hoopla over the Interview movie? Well, the first problems over making Interview into a movie came when Hollywood couldn't deal with Lestat and Louis being as close as they were *and* having a little girl in the house (they thought Lestat and Louis were pedophiles). Interview went through a lot of scripts, companies and formats before David Geffen went to Anne and asked her to do the script that she wanted. She did and then David set about casting the characters. However, he (after a few other choices such as Daniel Day-Lewis fell through) picked Tom Cruise to play Lestat. Anne saw red when this happened and felt, in her words, "betrayed" by what David did, as did most of her fans. They exchanged a lot of not-so-nice words in the media while Interview went into production. When Interview was finished, David sent a tape of it to Anne (who was unable to attend a screening) and Anne loved it! She loved it so much that she took out two full-page ads in Daily Variety, The New York Times and the Advocate to tell her fans that she loved the film, that everyone involved did a great job and that, if her fans saw the film and still didn't like it, they could tell her to her face (at book signings and what have you). **Did Anne publish anything else about the movie? Yes. She also wrote out an essay that gave more or less her point by point opinion of everything that happened in the movie. This was published in a December 1994 issue of Daily Variety. **I have my own ideas about who should have played the characters in the IWTV movie, should I mention them to other fans? You can. Now that the movie has come out people are slightly more willing than they once were to discuss this topic. However, keep in mind that some people thought that the actors in the movie did a great job and will not take well to hearing otherwise. Many fans are also happily discussing who should play whom in the movie versions of the other books (VampChron and TWH) so you may want to join in there as well. **Ok, I'm willing to take the risk of having the plots of both ruined, so could you please tell me what is different between the movie of Interview and the book of Interview? Gladly. From my readings on a.b.a-r it seems to me that the differences between the book and the movie come in two categories so I'll list them that way as well. Please note that, for the FAQ, I'm not going to note what may or may not have ended up on the cutting room floor. All I'm addressing here is what was or was not in the movie vs. what was in the book. Catagory 1) Major changes that really deviate from the book and are probably going to have interesting implications on the sequel (a.k.a. "Wait a minute, didn't that happen the *other* way?"): This category starts off with Louis. In the book he turned to drinking and suicidal tendencies because his brother, Paul, died in an accident after they had had an argument. In the movie, Paul is replaced by Louis losing his wife and daughter in childbirth. Anne herself made this change as she thought it would better explain both Louis' feelings for Claudia and also show a bit more of Lestat's nice side (the idea being that he was attempting, in his own way, to give Louis the family he lost). As for Lestat, the big change in the beginning is that his father is not with him. Louis has no idea about Lestat's past in any way shape or form. The next two big changes come in Paris. When Louis makes Madeline into a vampire, there is no indication that Armand was just outside influencing Louis to do it. And later, when Louis, Claudia and Madeline are taken back to the Theatre of the Vampires, there is no sign that Lestat is there or having any say in Claudia's ultimate death. Next, Louis' separation from Armand comes not long after Claudia dies (instead of staying with him for years as he did in the book). Louis then tells Daniel that he saw Lestat again in 1988 (instead of 1976). In the book, of course, Louis lied about seeing Lestat at all but there has been no indication yet to show if this will be the same for the movies. Finally, the last big change is the ending. In the book, Louis drinks from Daniel and leaves him there to live or die. Daniel wakes up the next day, replays the last few minutes of the tapes (where Louis describes where he found Lestat again) and leaves, apparently to try to find Lestat. In the movie, Louis attacks Daniel but does not drink. Daniel flees the room, gets into his car and drives away. As he checks himself for damages he starts to play the tapes, starting from the beginning. Just as he has begun to calm down Lestat appears, drinks from Daniel, puts on Daniel's coat and slips into the driver's seat. The movie ends with the implication that Lestat is going to make Daniel into a vampire. Category 2) Things that are not really big changes but are still important to note (a.k.a. "Lestat didn't fly in Interview dammit!") Well, no, he didn't. But, for the most part, this change from the book was simply a Hollywood addition that was done for effect (and to give us that great shot of Brad enjoying the moment--but that's just me ). Other such changes: The vampires did not shed blood tears when they cried. After being given the Blood, both the canine teeth and the teeth just before and behind them were sharpened, whereas in the book only the canines are changed. Louis has black hair, not brown. Armand's appearance is not that of a 30something Latino with hair down to his knees but, in fact, that of a 17ish Russian with curly, shoulder-length auburn hair. Claudia used poisoned victims to weaken Lestat in her attempt to kill him. The idea of dead blood doing anything but making vampires feel ill belongs solely to the movie. At the Theatre of the Vampires, all the vampires should have had their hair dyed black. It was Gabrielle (in TVL), not Claudia, who first showed readers the fact that a vampire's hair will grow back if it is cut. Also, this process occurs while they sleep during the day, not within a few minutes as it did with Claudia. Although there is no mention of Louis' official height in the books, most people feel that he is shorter than Lestat. In the movie, Tom Cruise's Lestat is shorter than Brad Pitt's Louis. When Louis and Claudia went to Europe, they did not meet any vampires until they came to Paris. In the book they found a mindless vampire while traveling through Eastern Europe. Also, throughout the movie, they shorten the amount of time that it took for various things to happen. For example, becoming a vampire happened in a matter of minutes, it took longer for Lestat to find the mortal Louis again and so on. **I distinctly heard you say sequel. Is there going to be A movie sequel for Interview? Current Hollywood gossip has it that the sequel for Interview (namely TVL) is a go. Rumors abound about who will star in it, but nothing is certain yet. **Was Interview nominated for any Oscars? It was up for Cinematography and Musical Score. It lost to The Madness of King George and The Lion King. **How about the MTV Movie Awards? Though nominated in practically every catagory, it only won in three: Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Most Desirable Male (Brad again, *big* surprise ) and Breakthrough Performance (Kirsten Dunst). **Ok, did Lestat say the line "You're a vampire. You never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over your lips." in the movie or didn't he? No, he didn't. Previews and commercial clips for movies are often put together long before the final cut of the film. You'll notice that a few other things were changed or cut out before the movie hit the theatres. For example, in the commercials, after Claudia went into Louis' arms, he says "Monster." to Lestat. In the movie, this was changed to "You fiend." **So what's all that Memnoch tour info. that you promised? Here it is now! This was a press release that Anne's publisher thoughtfully mailed to me. Please excuse the format since this is how it was sent to me. "MOCK JAZZ FUNERAL FOR BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANNE RICE AS SHE KICKS OFF 1995 "MEMNOCH THE DEVIL" BOOKTOUR IN NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- New Orleans icon and bestselling author Anne Rice will kick off her national tour promoting the release of her sixteenth and latest novel, "Memnoch the Devil," with a mock jazz funeral in her home town of New Orleans on Wednesday, July 12. The funeral procession, beginning at 4:45 p.m., will be fronted by Maxwell's New Orleans Blues and Jazz Brass Band and traditional "second liners" (mourners marching with umbrellas), two Grand Marshalls, followed by an antique horse drawn hearse with coffin inside and the body of a very special guest. Sources have confirmed that inside the coffin, wearing a wedding gown, will be author Anne Rice. The funeral procession will exit the Lafayette I Cemetery in New Orleans through the Washington Street Gate and wind its way several blocks to the Garden District Bookshop at 2727 Prytania Street. Once the procession arrives at the bookstore, pallbearers will remove the coffin from the hearse, carry it into the bookstore, and open it. Ms. Rice will then, for the first time, sign finished copies of her latest novel, the fifth book in the Vampire Chronicles, "Memnoch the Devil." Her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, confirms that this will be the first million-copy first printing on an Anne Rice title in the company's history, and that the copies will go on sale all across America beginning at 12:00 noon on July 12. CELEBRATION IN THE HEART OF THE GARDEN DISTRICT: Local Vendors Lend Their Support to Author; Cemetery Offers Special Tour Tours of Lafayette I Cemetery, New Orleans' third oldest cemetery (laid out in 1833 and in constant use since 1840) will be offered all day on July 12 by volunteers from Save Our Cemeteries, a non-profit organization promoting the preservation of New Orleans cemeteries. Tours will begin at the cemetery's Washington Street Gate and last approximately 20 minutes. Candlelight tours will be available after sundown. A reduced tour fee of $3.00 per person will be charged in honor of Anne Rice, with all proceeds benefiting Save Our Cemeteries. At the bookstore, Garden District Bookshop owner Britton Trice has arranged for free coffee, soft drinks and beer (while supplies last) to be served to customers and fans waiting in line. The local vendors participating in this event include PJ's Prytania and Commanders Palace. The 1995 "Memnoch the Devil" tour will take Ms. Rice to 30 cities across America and last four months, and will conclude on October 28 in New Orleans with a gala event called the "Memnoch Ball," being held at one of the largest private residences in America, the former orphanage, St. Elizabeth's. Ms. Rice has been supervising the renovation of St. Elizabeth's for two years and anticipates completion of the project sometime in 1996. Ms. Rice has just completed a screenplay for "The Witching Hour" and is presently at work on a new novel about a ghost who wants to give up haunting, called "Servant of the Bones." AUTOGRAPHING LOCATIONS FOR 1995 MEMNOCH TOUR Ms. Rice's tour for "Memnoch the Devil" will bring her to the following locations where she will be autographing copies of her novel: Barnes & Noble Astor Place, New York, July 24; Unabridged Books, Chicago, July 26; Bibelot, Baltimore, July 29; Oxford, Atlanta, July 31; Crossroads Market, Houston, August 2; Borders, Dallas, August 4; Books-a-Million, Birmingham (AL), August 5; Lemuria, Jackson (MS), August 6; Joseph Beth, Lexington, August 18; Library Limited, St. Louis, August 19; Bookpeople, Austin, August 20; Borders, Las Vegas, September 6; Esmerelda, San Diego, September 7; Dutton's Brentwood, Los Angeles, September 8; Dark Carnival, San Francisco, September 11; Tower Books, Portland (OR), September 13; Elliott Bay, Seattle, September 14; Waterstones, Boston, September 22; The Hungry Mind, Minneapolis, October 11; Harry W. Schwartz, Milwaukee, October 12; and University Bookstore, Madison, October 13. " **What's this I hear about Anne saying Lestat has left her? I'll let her words speak for themselves (this was taken from the message on her phone line, the number of which was listed earlier): "Good morning everybody. This is February 22, 1995,.... Um, I had a very, very strange experience this week that I want to share with you: Lestat...left me. For those of you who are readers, who have seen the movie, you know who I mean. The Vampire Lestat, he left me. He departed me forever. And this doesn't mean he died, or anything like that, he just left me. I finished making the very last corrections on the galleys of my novel _Memnoch, the Devil_ which is the fifth novel I've written with Lestat, I wrote it February of last year, and I went back over it February this year, and as I completed the last page, I knew that Lestat was leaving. He didn't quite say it to me directly, but we both kind of sensed that the five books had finished what we had to do together. And I wrote in ink on the last page, "Adieu, mon amour," commending him to God. I probably murdered the pronunciation of that in French, but then he's French, I'm not. I can tell you exactly where he disappeared. He disappeared in the twenty-hundred (2000) block of St. Charles Avenue, only about 25 to 30 feet downtown from the Ponchartrain Hotel. He disappeared in that spot. That's where he was standing when my imagination left him. And he was looking in a shop window, there's a place on that corner that used to be a Mercedez-Benz dealership, and he just happened to be passing there and he saw himself in the glass, of...of that empty store, or building, and...that was the last time he and I looked at each other, he's gone. He's absolutely gone. And now it's my obligation as a writer to create new characters and to think about my new book _Servant of the Bones_ and to try to make characters that can talk for me, as eloquently as Lestat did because he's not going to come back. I know that." **Do you think she means it? Right now I'm not sure. But it would seem that neither is Anne. Of late, she has been saying that she would like her fans to read the book, then tell her what they thought about it and if they think she should continue. **In TWH, how could Michael Curry see Lasher? See "How on earth is Michael Curry related to the Mayfairs (besides being married to Rowan I mean)?" **Ok. How on earth is Michael Curry related to the Mayfairs (besides being married to Rowan I mean)? For this, I'll quote Lasher himself as he inadvertently explained it to Rowan: "And then Julien brought Evelyn to his house and there conceived Laura Lee, who gave birth to Alicia and Gifford. And from Julien also the illegitimate child, Michael O'Brien, born to the girl in St. Margaret's orphanage, who gave it up and went into the convent to beome Sister Bridget Marie, and then from that girl, three boys and one girl, and that girl married Alaister Curry who gave birth to Tim Curry, who..." [Lasher is interrupted by Rowan]. **How can Julien be a proper Mayfair witch if Lasher said there were only 13? Lasher was referring to the 13 female Mayfair witches. He does admit that Julien was just as much of a witch as they were. **Why is it that when a Taltos is pregnant the baby is born immediately but when a human is pregnant with a Taltos it takes longer? According to what Ash says, a Taltos baby grows more quickly in the womb when its mother recognizes it for what it is. So, when a Taltos is pregnant, they obviously know it right away and thus the baby is born but when a human is pregnant with a Taltos baby, they don't necessarily know what it is until some time later (Morrigan, for example, only grew rapidly after Mona knew for sure that she was pregnant). **Is there going to be a TWH movie? The latest official word that I have on this is from CS#3: "I HAVE WRITTEN THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE WITCHING HOUR FOR DAVID GEFFEN. That means, I did get hired, I did get paid, they (GEFFEN AND WARNERS) bought the rights to LASHER (I wasn't going to venture forth without Mona Mayfair and also without Lasher himself in the flesh). I have turned in my one and only draft. The draft. The author's vision. The movie according to Rice. The canonical version. What they will do with it is anybody's guess...." **Is there any companion book for TWH like there is for VampChron? Katherine Ramsland has apparently put together a companion book for TWH. However not much is known about this book as of right now so I couldn't tell you more about it. **Help! I just finished Taltos and I'm dying to read the next TWH book! Will there be one? There will indeed. It's entitled Morrigan and will be out in the near future. **Help! I just finished The Mummy and I'm dying to read the sequel! Please tell me there will be one! Anne is painfully aware that she promised a sequel for The Mummy and has not yet delivered one. However, she's currently occupied with TWH, VampChron and another project so, quite frankly, it's going to take a while, if it comes at all. **What other project is Anne working on? Anne is currently writing The Servant of the Bones which is not part of either TWH or VampChron. It is about a tempestuous ghost. There is no word yet if it is in the same universe as TWH and VampChron though. A snippet from CS#2 which describes the book a bit more: "At present I am trying to get away from my chronicles, and do a wholly new book, as I've told you before, called SERVANT OF THE BONES. My hero in this book is a ghost. And though the story begins with a murder on modern day ·_ Fifth Avenue in New York, Azriel, my ghost hero, has a long long history going back in the ancient Middle East. I'm deep into Jewish Folklore as I write this, and study of the Kabbalah." Anne hopes to have the book finished in time for it to be released in the Fall of 1996. **I heard this great rumor that Anne's putting together a book that will bring The Mummy, TWH and VampChron characters all together. Is this true? Sadly, no. While it would be an amazing story, Anne has said that the characters in each series are too strong for her to be able to bring together in a single book. We fans will have to make do with the cameo appearances that we've had thus far. **Which cameos do you mean? When I say cameos I mean any time that a character or plot point from one of Anne's books makes an appearance or is referred to in another book. Specifically: David Talbot and Aaron Lightner are referred to in both TWH and VampChron books. Ramses is mentioned in TVL. In TotBT, when Lestat meets David in Amsterdam, David is getting the Rembrandt portrait of Deborah for Aaron that was mentioned in TWH. There *might* be a VampChron cameo in Taltos when Ash refers to other supernatural creatures that have taken a liking to the Talamasca (he could be referring to Lestat or Khayman) but this is uncertain. **I really don't like the supernatural stuff. Will Anne be doing any more books like Cry to Heaven and Feast of All Saints? Anne says no. She says that she likes the advantages that come with writing about the supernatural too much to be able to go back to the non-supernatural writings which now seem a bit drier in comparison. **I think the Beauty books were the best thing that came out of Anne's mind. Will she be writing more erotica like that? Again, Anne says no. For now, she's done all she wants to do with her erotic series and does not think she'll be going back to it. Any erotica that you'll read from Anne will be contained in her future supernatural books. **Someone told me that Belinda was a good book but I really don't like erotica. Should I still read it? Although Belinda was written under the Rampling name, it is not one of her erotic books in the same way that EtoE was. It is about the romance between an older man and a teen aged girl. There are some erotic scenes in it, but no more than can be found in, for example, TWH. (See also "Is such and such a book by Anne any good?") **What was Anne's original reaction to the movie of EtoE? Last year, Anne said that she felt that the script stayed very close to the heart of her book and that the movie would be an accurate telling of the ideas behind it. **Did that give you a good laugh? Yes it did. **What does Anne say now? Anne now admits that she should have asked more questions when Garry Marshall approached her about the idea. She does hope, though, that Garry's "mainstreaming" of the story will help to bring the idea of S&M as an acceptable lifestyle to the public eye. **So the movie is not like the book? To paraphrase a line from MST3K, EtoE the movie is based on EtoE the book in that they were both written in English. **Well, I'd still be interested to know who does what in the movie, could you tell me that? Sure! Exit To Eden Savoy Pictures Dana Delany: Lisa Emerson Paul Mercurio: Elliott Slater Hector Elizondo: Martin Halifax Rosie O'Donnell: Sheila (cop) Dan Ackroyd: Fred (cop) Screenplay by: Deborah Amelon and Bob Brunner Directed by: Garry Marshall Produced by: Garry Marshall and Alexandra Rose **Wait a minute, I don't remember any cops in EtoE! I know. See "So the movie is not like the book?" **Are there any other interesting tidbits about the EtoE movie? Yes, it made Roger Ebert's list of the Top Ten Worst Movies of 1994. **It wasn't #1 was it? No, thank Rob Reiner for creating North and sparing us that fate. **Are any other movies of Anne's books in the works? Rumor has it that Belinda, TWH and The Mummy are being kicked around as movie ideas. **What's a Roquelaure and why did Anne choose that name? A roquelaure is a type of cloak invented by Count Roquelaure in the 18th century. Anne choose the name A.N. Roquelaure because of its meaning ("Anne under a cloak") and because it had the right sound for erotica. **Would you think me absolutely crazy if I told you that I thought Prince Laurent sounded a lot like Lestat? No I would not. The Beauty books were written before TVL was. During that time, Anne was continuously working on changing the way Lestat's character appeared in Interview. This came out in Anne's writing as both the character of Prince Laurent and also as Elliott in EtoE so you will see a lot of similarities in their personalities. **A lot of people focus on TWH and VampChron, doesn't anyone like Cry to Heaven or The Feast of All Saints? Yes they do. In fact, some fans *only* like Cry to Heaven and Feast of All Saints. If you aren't thrilled with TWH and VampChron you are not alone. The reason why they tend to get put to the side in conversations is that they were written so long ago and there are so many new books of Anne's to talk about. It's not that TWH and VampChron fans only like those series, it's that they tend to like *all* of the books and are just talking about the latest one. **Is such and such a book by Anne any good? A common question asked of old Anne Rice fans is if a book that a new fan has not read yet is any good (meaning, should they read it). This is not an easy question to ask. There is no hard and fast rule for what type of fan will like what type of book. Just because you liked The Mummy doesn't mean that you'll like TWH and liking Belinda doesn't mean that you'll like EtoE. Heck, just because you liked Interview doesn't mean that you're going to like Lestat! If you really want to read a book but you're not sure if you should spend the money, take it out of the library. Most libraries will have all of Anne's books as part of their collection and, if people in your town respect library books, you'll even get to see what the original hard cover versions of the book looked like (but don't expect to see the original hard cover of Interview, it often gets so much wear and tear from being taken out so much that most libraries have had to put new, plain covers on). If you read it and like it, you can always buy the paperback later. **Is there a fan club for us Anne Rice fans? Yes there is. The info about it is as follows: Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club (ARVLFC) P.O. Box 58277 New Orleans, LA 70158-8277 The annual fee is $13.00 ($18.00 for outside U.S.) and your membership includes a membership card, newsletters and a bumper sticker and you also get an order form for t-shirts, bumper stickers and pins. **Hey, Laura, how did you get all this Anne Rice info. anyway? Over the years that I've been an Anne Rice fan I've read all of her books to the point where I've pretty much memorized them, numerous articles about Anne or from Anne (such as her newsletter), seen Anne give a talk and spoken with Anne on several occasions. All of the information in this FAQ comes from this. When I say "Anne says/said" I'm referring to the articles, talk, phone message and times I've spoken with her. (Note: I'm not claiming that Anne and I are best friends, when I say I've spoken to her I mean that on a few occasions I've been lucky enough to ask her some of the questions that appear in this FAQ.) I've paraphrased most of what Anne has said since I cannot remember the exact quotes verbatim. If any of the quotes or paraphrasing are incorrect, I apologize and will correct them as soon as the error is brought to my attention. Please note that often when I quote from Anne's newsletter, I will cut out parts which do not directly relate to the immediate question. This is indicated by a "...". I point this out so it will be understood that I'm not trying to hide information, only to make the answers more concise. **I have a question that wasn't included here, what should I do? Please feel free to e-mail me with your questions and I'll answer them to the best of my ability (or I'll admit that you stumped me and offer another avenue of information). If I'm e-mailed a question often enough I'll include it in the FAQ. **How can I get copies of this FAQ? This FAQ is posted once a month on alt.books.anne-rice, available via ftp to rtfm.mit.edu in the directory /pub/usenet and the archive name is books/anne-rice-faq. You may also get a copy (though not necessarily the most recent copy) at the WWW site: http://www.xroads.com/pages/gpalmer/gpalmer.html And a more constantly updated copy can be found at: http://ucunix.san.uc.edu/~elymt **Hey! You got something wrong! What are you gonna do about it? If anything I wrote in this FAQ is incorrect, even if it's just a spelling error, please bring it to my attention. I'll correct it immediately and even include your name in the credits. **Is there any other way that I can get my name in the credits of this FAQ? Certainly! You can tell me information that I was unable to include, you can offer new information that I didn't know about or you can offer me suggestions for quotes for me to put at the end of the FAQ (I change the endquotes with every new version of the FAQ). All of the above will get your name in the credits and all the fame that goes along with it. Keep in mind, however, that this is the *Anne Rice* FAQ so the information that goes in here has to somehow relate directly back to her, or to information about the FAQ. What that means is that sometimes information that people ask me to include might not be put in here because it was too far removed (rumors about who will star in upcoming VampChron movies would be a good example of this). Please don't take that as a snub, it's just my way of making sure that when people see the name of this FAQ, they'll know what they're getting. **What about more information about alt.books.anne-rice? An a.b.a-r faq is currently in development. **What is the copyright info. for this FAQ? This FAQ was written and copyrighted on July 11, 1995 and the information in it is, to the best of my knowledge, accurate as of this date. I will provide updates to the FAQ as necessary. I give permission for this FAQ to be quoted and distributed only if the parts used are quoted in their entirety (ie. questions and answers) and it is made clear that I am the one who said these things originally. I say this so that something of Anne's that I paraphrased will not be taken out of context and regarded as the Gospel truth of what Anne believes. You may not distribute this FAQ for your own monetary gain without contacting me first. You may also not quote from this FAQ in any article, news show or paper without contacting me first. By 'contacting me' I mean in order to get my permission. If you are going to quote something from the FAQ (for example, in an Internet newsgroup in order to answer one of the questions) but not the entire FAQ, please include the information that you are quoting what Laura Troise said in the Anne Rice FAQ. If you are going to use a copy of this FAQ in a WWW site, please let me know so I can include the name of the site in the FAQ. Do not add your own information to this FAQ. If you wish to add something, e-mail me with that suggestion and, if it's relevant, I'll add it in myself and put your name in the credits. **What are the credits for this FAQ? Here they are: This FAQ was written in its entirety by Laura Troise (lat13@columbia.edu). Christopher Harrington (Chris_M._Harrington@csgi.com) and Diane Kinney (dk68@columbia.edu) provided invaluable help with their suggestions, information and proofreading. These Talamasca Scholars get my thanks for the sections that they contributed to the FAQ: Cheryl Suzuki (csuzuki@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu), Ian Wellock (ian@istld.insignia.com) and Kathryn McGinley (km8815f91@sable.adelphi.edu), Anne Rice (who contributed via her newsletter and phone machine) and Anne's publisher (who asked to remain nameless). Thanks also to these Child Prodigies of Darkness for sending me their comments, information, corrections and, most importantly, for not making fun of my bad spelling: Ralf Muschall (prm@rz.uni-jena.de), Susan Kretschmer (sxk29@po.CWRU.edu), Tandi Graff (TGRAFF@hr.house.gov), Britton Trice (BETbooks@aol.com), Kerry Brooke Holmes (kholmes@gladstone.uoregon.edu), Thomas Christian Martinez (cybu@argo.unm.edu), Keiko (KHAUN@delphi.com), Cynthia Hoffman (choff@violet.berkeley.edu), Liisa Elliott (lselltt@CC.UManitoba.edu), Frank Yao (fyao@csclub.waterloo.ca), Laura Tahja (ltaja@ubd.umn.edu), Barbara Kermeen (avmtelem@ix.nextcom.com), Matt Azzara (AZZARA@UTSW.SWMED.EDU), Sam Volchenboum (volcs@mother.mayo.edu), William Hsu (bhsu@sal.cs.uiuc.edu), Jennifer Williams (jbooth@us.oracle.com), Thomas Gramstad (thomasg@ifi.uio.no), Angela B. (cdesmara@direct.ca), Julie Anne Butler (butlerja@printing.vwex.edu), R. Julia F. Rudden (juliafr@lclark.edu), Mishian (mishian@aol.com), Mike T. Ely (elymt@ucunix.san.uc.edu), and Margot Moulton (stdnt149@systema.westark.edu). A special thanks goes to Neil (who knows who she is) for getting me hooked on Anne in the first place. Once again, unless otherwise stated, all opinions expressed belong to me and my other personalities only. Any problems that result from them are solely our responsibility even though we'll be tempted to blame the others for them. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Memories of things that never happened. These are always the hardest to forget." --Thomas Dolby ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^