Anne Rice on Sparkly Vampires, ‘Twilight,’ ‘True Blood,’ and Werewolves

Nov 23, 2011 12:05 The Daily Beast

A Facebook post by 'Interview With the Vampire' author Anne Rice poking fun at 'Twilight' caused a furor among Team Edward. Rice tells Marlow Stern about her 'Twilight' 'beef,' her thoughts on the movie series and 'True Blood,' why teens are obsessed with vampires, and her upcoming book, 'The Wolf Gift.'

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The Twi-Hard’s proverbial fangs came out. Anne Rice, (above),the renowned author behind the Vampire Chronicles series of novels—Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned—made a post on her Facebook fan page earlier this month poking fun at Twilight.
The post said her vampires would “feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun” and “would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high-school over and over again in a small town,” while adding, “My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.”
The rabid fans of Stephenie Meyer’s series of novels and the subsequent film adaptations were incensed, flooding the 70-year-old author’s Facebook page with hateful comments.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, the "queen" of vampire fiction, Anne Rice, opens up about her Twilight “beef,” her feelings about HBO’s True Blood, why she thinks teens these days are obsessed with vampires, and her upcoming foray into the world of werewolf novels, The Wolf Gift, which will be released Feb. 12.
Read the Anne Rice interview here.

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