You love the books, and fawn over the undead, but it’s all a glamed up remake, not of the old vampire tales but of a tormenting classic.

We’re vacationing at the Hotel Zoso in Palm Springs, for a site check, and I found this backhanded insult between vampire dorks in the conservative Dessert Life Sun. Authors fight with words, which is why you need to read in between this cutting compliment given by Anne Rice about all that ‘Twilight stuff’.Yeah…..it’s STUFF!

Rice: Stephanie Meyer with the ‘Twilight’ stuff really is repeating the basic theme of the Bronte sisters: a young girl is fascinated by a mysterious older figure. She’s made it a vampire that goes to high school, but it’s basically an older man that’s protective and something of a menace. That’s straight out of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights” – the infatuation with Heathcliff, the infatuation with Mr. Rochester.

Anne Rice is so bitter about the entire nation falling in love with Bella and Edward instead of her gay vampires, that she’s seen the light and become a reborn weirdo. She makes a fortune off of using Satan and then total ditches him. One day sitting at her desk, the goth godess and atheist leader just decided she was going back to church. She didn’t believe in God and then she did. WTF?

I don’t remember anything happening except sitting at my desk and realizing I wanted to go back through the Catholic Church. A couple years later, I dedicated all my work to God. In a sense, I would no longer write any books as an atheist. “The Vampire Chronicles” are really books about atheism. The vampires are atheists. They don’t have any sign from God that He exists and, in a way, they’re about the miseries of that outlook. I couldn’t write them any more

Slash- Anne’s afraid to die.

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