Why Rice's vampires will return

Novelist Anne Rice says she'll write one more 'Vampire Chronicles' book despite her 2005 vow to put the characters to rest and focus on Christian fiction, said Carolyn Sayre in Time. "Turns out, vampires aren't easy to kill." Fans will probably

What happened

Novelist Anne Rice told Time magazine that she would write one more Vampire Chronicles book despite her 2005 vow to put the characters to rest and focus on Christian fiction. “"When I published my first book about the Lord I said I would never write about those characters again," Rice said. "But I have one more book that I would really like to write. It will be a story that I need to tell."

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