As she told
New York Times interviewe r Stewart Kellerman, Rice feels that she's "a divided person with different voices, like an actor playing different roles." Discussing this subject with Sarah Booth Conroy in a
Washington Post interview, Rice said, "I think some times that if I had had perhaps a few more genes, or whatever, I would have been truly mad, a multiple personality whose selves didn't recognize each other."
However, Rice remains best known for the vampire and witch books she pens under her own name. "As Anne Rice's corpus grows, her pantheon of protagonists increases in size and diversity," wrote Kathleen Rout in a critical study of the author in Journal of Popular Culture. "Her initial infatuation with Lestat, the Brat Prince of the vampires, made room for a fascination with the entire family line of the Mayfair witches of New Orleans. In almost every novel of the vampire or witch series, she opposes human beings to creatures of another sort, with the humans as prey of one kind or another." Rout further commented that Rice "has moved the vampire novel 180 degrees from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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