Anne & Christopher Rice, A Family Fiction

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ANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER RICE

SUPERNATURAL, PARANORMAL, MAGICAL, AND SURREALISTIC

I am in the process of fulfilling an important piece of research on Anne Rice’s novel Merrick, and the use of magic in the novel along with various references to cultures where magic is or was fundamental. She refers to Voodoo, Candomblé, Maya, Olmec, and even older rites and magics enabling contact with spirits, ghosts, and other supernatural beings within two fictional contexts she has used in many books, the Mayfair witches and Lestat de Lioncourt’s vampires, plus a millennium-old secret society observing and researching the fields of paranormal capabilities, the Talamasca.

Within this research, I have hereby collected all the reviews on Anne Rice, and Christopher Rice I could find in my readable computer archives. I am missing some because at least two diskettes refuse to be read because they were configured on an old dead Windows 95 IBM computer, at least three technical generations ago. Sorry about that. I will one day get the hard copies out of their files and scan them if I can find them, or I will ask a service company to extract the data from the various diskettes I have, not to mention a Windows 98 computer of the late 1990s.

I offer you these reviews. There might be some repeats. Sorry about it. They are in the chronological order of the original publishing dates of the novel. I have integrated some reviews of Christopher Rice’s works as some kind…