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Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | It’s Lit

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Forbes once called her “The Warren Buffett of vampires,” but American author, Anne Rice has established herself as the literary queen of monsters of ALL kinds over her four-and-a-half decade career. Besides her 15 novels of the world-famous Vampire Chronicles series, she’s also written 21 other books featuring all your favorite dark, supernatural, and undead beings: witches, ghosts, mummies, werewolves, aliens, demons, angels, Jesus.
But the works of Anne Rice aren't just light, pulpy fun monster books--her vampires changed the landscape of genre fiction as we know it?
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Hosted by: Lindsay Ellis
Written by: Elisa Hansen
Director: David Schulte
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@SomeNerdyVlogger 3 года назад

I love the implication that Rice's atheism was hurtful to Pope Francis personally.

@mhawang8204 3 года назад

The choice of graphic for that part of the video is perfect. 😂

@oliviawilliams6204 3 года назад

funilly enough a big reason she got back to atheism was because of Pope Benedict XVI

@Lelqtii 3 года назад

@@mhawang8204 While I like the idea, Francis only became Pope in 2013. But then again they do use a picture of Anne Rice from these days rather than from 1959 when she was 18 ...

@mhawang8204 3 года назад

@@Lelqtii I look at the image as the face of the Catholic Church, i.e. the religion personified. So really, any pope will do. It's just that the facepalm photo of the Pope when Anne Rice, an author of supernatural lit, becomes an atheist is funny.

@johannymilord3371 3 года назад

I didn't know Anne Rice was an atheist. 😕

@morganbiddlecom 3 года назад

You can tell this is for pbs and not Lindsey's personal channel because there is zero mention of fandom drama

@jbvader721 3 года назад

It was mentioned in It's Lit! video "The Case for Fan Fiction".

@jellybean_91 3 года назад

I am personally hoping for a video from Lindsay on her own channel about the fandom drama surrounding Anne Rice.

@beeaggro2593 3 года назад

Yea I was shocked there was no mention about any of that

@jbvader721 3 года назад

@@jellybean_91 Maybe after the whole Addison Cain/Omegaverse fiasco Lindsay got into, maybe that's something to look back on. Especially as a comparison piece.

@ActuallyDoubleGuitars 3 года назад

@@jellybean_91 What's the fandom drama? Or can you point me in the right direction to find out now I'm curious.

@FaithfulHorrorhound 3 года назад

"Little Susan hated literature, but she loved a good book." -Terry Pratchett.

@itarry4 3 года назад

Now there's a Author who had to prove himself over and over because of what the books he wrote were consistently written off as being. A true genius who wrote books impossible to pigeon hole and bucking all the norms.

@sweeney60 3 года назад

@@itarry4 Seems like Terry Pratchett and Anne Rice are spiritual cousins in that way.

@daisyrushton1574 3 года назад

GNU Terry Pratchett

@b.g.6696 3 года назад

God I hope they do an episode on him too

@vsolyomi 3 года назад

@@sweeney60 she's the evil twin

@Melissa-tw2gp 3 года назад

Anne Rice is so infamous in fandom that I sometimes forget all she’s contributed. Thanks, It’s Lit!

@jbvader721 3 года назад

The legacy of Anne Rice (like a lot of writers) is a double-edged sword. I've heard stories of Rice's crackdown on fanfiction of her works (which she has softened on in recent years). Yet, it's fascinating to know how Rice also contributed so much to fiction.

@sataprescott7588 3 года назад

I was there for the Anne Rice Wars and convoluted disclaimers and CTRL-F-ReplaceAll fanfic/original fic days. It was the Wild West, let me tell you.

@garfreeek 3 года назад

I was just gonna say this, I've only seen the evil withc but never what she did for literature!

@lancevoltron3585 3 года назад

Its a shame she didn't see herself in fandom writers.

@fuliajulia 3 года назад

Exactly what I was thinking!

@danstadler3752 3 года назад

Her son is also an author and extremely gay. My mother got me a copy of Christopher Rice’s ‘The Snow Garden’ when I went off to college. She missed the word “homoerotic” in the praise on the dust jacket. Initially so did I. So I’ll never forget starting the second chapter when a man “Didn’t know what woke him: the sound of sirens in the distance or Randall’s hot mouth closing around his left nipple.” Since I had just recently come out to my Mom, I wondered what message she was trying to send. Later she wanted to read it too, and that prompted a conversation no one wants with their Mom!

@cecilie... 3 года назад

Lmao, I love this!

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

Yes,he is a very good writer 👏 himself.

@billdagrasshawking 3 года назад

I was a pre teen when i found "Exit to eden" stored with all of moms vampire books...... it really kid of opened my youthful mind to all the possibilities

@csillakaszas7285 3 года назад

Reminds me of a story someone shared on goodreads: her grandma gave her Sleeping Beauty as a present - because it's a retelling of the classic story and the girl collected such books. ...except Anne Rice's retelling is 100% erotica. Beauty is woken up by getting raped by the prince and taken to court as a sex slave. Grandma wanted to borrow it later, but she just kept making excuses. I imagine these oopsies happen a lot more often than one would think.

@johannymilord3371 3 года назад

Like Mother, Like Son 😚

@jbvader721 3 года назад

Lindsay Ellis waxing poetic about vampires is the kind of RU-vid content I subscribed for.

@jbvader721 3 года назад

@Redsiren Same.

@tamsinterror3520 3 года назад

Have you seen Lindsay's Werewolf content?

@lolthien 3 года назад

Tsk. @@tamsinterror3520 Be nice.

@SirBlackReeds 3 года назад

Why? She's terrible?

@robertgronewold3326 3 года назад

This script was written by Maven of the Eventide. She's a great vampire centric RU-vidr who has long worked with Lindsay.

@CanIswearinmyhandle 3 года назад

Me: Where is she I know she's here Description: Written by: Elisa Hansen Me: *Aha!*

@alexaaragon21 3 года назад

I also was searching for an Elisa credit somewhere in there XD

@Taxrenn93 3 года назад

Gooooooood Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeving

@drewcareymore1798 3 года назад

I did the same thing. 😂

@bkrage85 3 года назад

Get that credit Elisa!!! THE MAVEN RISES!

@klisterklister2367 3 года назад

There she is!

@the_epicfangirl 3 года назад

Whatever they may feel about it, Brad Pitt’s and Tom Cruise’s respective portrayals of Louis and Lestat are iconic. I quote Lestat’s final line, “Louis, Louis, Louis. Still whining Louis,” on a regular basis.

@mysteriiis 3 года назад

Just did that myself during the video.

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

Good God, that movie was a horror, truly a horror. Both main actors knew that the characters they were playing were very, very gay and tried their damnest to play them as if they weren't. But otherwise, the movie 🎥 is still a mess

@the_epicfangirl 3 года назад

@@eliselianaboyd2547 oh I don’t deny that at all. That movie is something else, but that’s what makes it all the better. The fact that they are trying so hard to make them straight is what, in my opinion, makes them even gayer. And that movie is the reason why I like my vampires at least 40% gay. Just like the meme says.

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

@@the_epicfangirl Thanks. I still don't like this movie but this is one of the best replies that I've ever seen 👏.

@the_epicfangirl 3 года назад

@@eliselianaboyd2547 welcome, and to each their own I say. I just enjoy vampires of any kind, and the trashier the movie, the better.

@charity6372 3 года назад

I had no idea Anne Rice lost a child. That's very sad.😔

@rgs8970 3 года назад

I'm finding myself tearing up realizing that that is the origin of the character Claudia, one of my favorite fictional characters of all time

@mhawang8204 3 года назад

@@rgs8970 Knowing this now makes that scene where Claudia died with "the mother" she had found extremely sad.

@oliviawilliams6204 3 года назад

yeah it's well known in her fandom. She also lost her husband more recently. That was probably one of the reasons she got back to Christianity in the 2000's

@robinrinsmith 3 года назад

@@DarthMalaks_Missing_Lower_Jaw What? I’ve never heard about that. I know she has a gay son, who’s also an author, but he’s very much still alive!

@krapincorporated 3 года назад

My heart broke at this part.

@traversdow4453 3 года назад

It’s amazing to think Twilight would not exist without Anne Rice

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

And we have fan fiction to thank for that, sarcasm.

@jbvader721 2 года назад

I don't want to think about the sad truth that Louis walked so that Edward could run.

@halcyons2106 3 года назад

"Isn't it Byronic"? Oh Lindsay.... you had to go there didn't you?

@DrBunnyMedicinal 3 года назад

Yeah...

@lorehammer40k4 3 года назад

Not only is it Byronic, it's bi-ronic.

@Sardo23 3 года назад

A little too Byronic, yeah I really do think.

@Applepopess 3 года назад

Now everyone check out MAVEN OF THE EVENTIDE who apparently wrote this brilliant episode.

@Trevurr 3 года назад

I LOVE HER VIDEOS omg that's exciting. I even thought at 7:57 that when Lindsay said "vampires" she sounded like Elisa lmao

@natalie8214 3 года назад

@@Trevurr I THOUGHT THE SAME THING

@joshuaxmanuel 2 года назад

Anne’s writing kept me afloat for so many of my teenage years. Forever grateful I got to experience her brilliance in this lifetime. She will be dearly missed. 1941-2021

@rainaftersnowplease3786 3 года назад

Anne Rice popping physically out of the text to say things to us is exactly the aesthetic she requires tbh well done.

@patriciatusay1768 2 года назад

Sadly, I just read today: 12/12/2021- Rest In Peace my favorite author.

@cecelialenore5576 2 года назад

I can't believe she passed away tonight. I'm so sad, she was such a legendary human and creator!

@patriciatusay1768 2 года назад

Just read about that. Sigh.

@Anna-ks3ct 2 года назад

Rewatching this after hearing of Rice's passing. Thank you for making this, I feel like it's a wonderful look at a complicated and often controversial author. May she rest in peace.

@abrickonjupiter 3 года назад

Literature departments: *teach Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Woolf's Orlando, The Tempest, and countless other works featuring the supernatural or a certain level of romanticism as artful classics of the medium* Creative writing programs: What is this genre fiction tripe? (On the other hand, this does explain why when I'm browsing the general fiction section for stuff more along literary lines to see what the snobs of my undergrad degree are reading, so many of the books feel like the same variation on a somber, contemplative realist drama taking place in some contemporary American town.)

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

Also all of those works, are really, really gay. Not my opinion, it's more than common knowledge at this point in time

@abrickonjupiter 3 года назад

@@eliselianaboyd2547 YUP

@JDaReL0626 3 года назад

I first encountered the Sleeping Beauty trilogy when I was 15. Imagine the effect that had on me HAHAHAHJSDGSAGDH

@oliviawilliams6204 3 года назад

I must have been around 13 when i read those... Can't say they did not leave an impression on me

@Senidhr 3 года назад

I read the first one around the same age, worst, my mom gave it to me from the library (she worked near it). Most certainly didn't knew xD. I wwas too innocent and shy, couldn't finish and didn't read the other two. Maybe should give a try again xD

@calonstanni 3 года назад

YUP! same here. oy.

@lainiwakura1776 3 года назад

Oh, you too? Lol

@DavidFernandez-vt3qn 3 года назад

Ze Maven of ze Eventide has crept into PBS. I want to see her and Dr. Emily Zarka talk vampires on Monstrum.

@mikakestudios5891 3 года назад

That would make my century.

@chavamara 3 года назад

Yeeesssss

@rayniebee 3 года назад

homg yes! All my fingers crossed for that.

@arnettrabaker4872 3 года назад

My favorite RU-vidr discussing my favorite author? It’s like someone at Storied asked, “what would Arnettra like to watch today?”

@rachaelerin1 3 года назад

I started reading Anne Rice in high school and absolutely loved her work, though it’s been a while since I’ve read. It’s really refreshing to learn more about her literary career and achievements that doesn’t include “well she hates fanfic so we hate her.”

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

Fan's can get a bit fanatic at times

@kaelang12 3 года назад

yeahhhh, it's more complicated than that. i believe there were lawsuits involved, so it's not just “well she hates fanfic so we hate her.” kotaku.com/it-used-to-be-perilous-to-write-fanfiction-1826083509

@very_nervous133 3 года назад

Written by Elisa Hansen 💜

@victoriakmartin 3 года назад

Because of course it was.

@Otra_Chica_de_Internet 3 года назад

That names comes up a lot in the comments, who is she?? Why do people not like her?

@victoriakmartin 3 года назад

She's a RU-vid reviewer who specializes in vampire media. Her channel is called Maven of the Eventide.

@stephenpmurphy591 3 года назад

@@victoriakmartin Thank you for the clarification.

@phoebexxlouise 3 года назад

I think most beloved literature was considered lowbrow at some point.

@danstadler3752 3 года назад

Once upon a time ANY novel was considered garbage and a sinful waste of time!

@bybabeful 3 года назад

Thank you for illuminating her career a little! I didn't know much of her work, just her controversial stance on fanfiction. Even though I don't agree with her, I can see the value of her work and respect her for what she's done :)

@ssjwes 3 года назад

I've always loved Anne Rice's take on vampires. I've read Interview, Lestat and Queen so many times. For me she made them feel closer to what I thought vampires would be, if they were real.

@Firegen1 3 года назад

I think I like the exploration of singular books or artists the most. The research on Storied is stronger than a lot of its contemporaries, so I like the "this piece/person made literary change" episodes the most. Thanks for reading my nerd talk.

@rami_ungar_writer 2 года назад

Watching this again after learning of her passing. May her stories continue to influence us for years to come.

@newbe1o1 2 года назад

Here after the sad news of the day. What a life she lived.

@hailmammonmoments7568 3 года назад

Few things capture the gap between the early 90s and the late 90s quite like the quality gap between Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.

@David-un4cs 3 года назад

Queen of the Damned is still weirdly entertaining though.

3 года назад

"I made characters you can relate to and identify with... BUT DON'T YOU DARE USE THEM IN SOME WICKED FANFICTION".

@oliviawilliams6204 3 года назад

her position on fanfiction softened a lot since the early 2000

3 года назад

@@oliviawilliams6204 She will still sue you if you dare posting it online so... baby steps I guess.

@Azvee 3 года назад

I can see why she might be possessive over the characters that helped her work through loosing a child, something I didn't know about until this video, but threatening your fans with a legal battle almost certain to ruin their lives is definitely a few steps too far.

@hailmammonmoments7568 3 года назад

Right now. Here on RU-vid. People are busking with animated fan fiction scripts. Back in the 90s empty suits were more than happy to destroy her cool factor with Queen of the Damned. It’s very difficult to draw the line between tribute-to and use-of intellectual property.

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

That is her work and livelihood. So I don't see how anyone can really get bend out of shape for her protecting her work, and fan fiction gave us twilight and 50 shades of gray. And we all know how that turned out.

@sonicdeath418 2 года назад

Rest in Peace Anne❤️ one of my all time favourite authors.

@lynnmontejo6917 2 года назад

Thank you for the wild ride, Anne. I owe you so much. Rest in power 💔❤️

@HarkSara 3 года назад

I had no knowledge of Anne Rice as a person. But the mother(s) described in the witching hour makes a lot more sense now.

@alexisogun 3 года назад

Storied please talk about Terry Pratchet and his Discworld book series adapted to movies, miniseries or short movies

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

Yes!!! Reading the whole thing, all 48 books 📚 or somewhere near that. Simply amazing work

@alexisogun 3 года назад

@@eliselianaboyd2547 thanks I'm watching the watch on BBC America. I have not read his Discworld book series, :( I may have watched his adapted works on RU-vid:(

@sataprescott7588 3 года назад

I... did not... know about Lestat and the Vampire Avengers VS the Reptile Men. Thank you for that.

@DrBunnyMedicinal 3 года назад

And now you can never un-know it! =D

@moniqueloomis9772 3 года назад

@@DrBunnyMedicinal 😂

@cannibalbananas 3 года назад

I love The Mummy, it's my favorite book by Anne Rice. My complaint about her is that she sometimes goes on tangents that have nothing to do with the plot. I remember reading about a plot of grass while the character walked off, and another that spent 3? pages talking about a grandfather clock. I tend to skim read her descriptions.

@Sarah-jz9fl 3 года назад

I’m sure someone else has already commented this but-no idea who “Yeets” is. WB Yeats, one of the most famous poets writing in the English language, has his named pronounced Yay-tes. Something any research at all would have clarified.

@anonb4632 3 года назад

Did she really do that? Oh dear. Maybe she needs to lay off the Deconstructionists and read the classics.

@Tinyvalkyrie410 3 года назад

It’s important to realize that these are collaborations. They are written by one person, produced by another, hosted by Lindsay, and edited by a completely separate person. The person who wrote it probably knows the correct pronunciation and wouldn’t have made the mistake, but she was unlikely to be in the room with the rest of the crew, especially with COVID, and having Lindsay re-record would have been time consuming for a very common minor mispronunciation. Being a jerk about it helps no one. Factual errors should always be corrected. Minor pronunciation or grammatical errors simply aren’t that big of a deal.

@anonb4632 3 года назад

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 It's politically tendentious too. It's about time people started questioning why money is being put towards far left academia. In some cases the money is coming from the very groups these woke post-structuralists disparage.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 I don't think OP was entirely being a jerk - and it was the man's damn name. It's a bit rich when you're making videos about literature and can't even get a well-known author's name right. It would be standard for the clip to be given an overview by someone other than the presenter and editor before posting. This is a well-made video, after all. Editing in a correction of the pronunciation at the end would be perfectly fitting. I think this is one case where the observation stands.

@Tinyvalkyrie410 3 года назад

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 they were at least being extremely condescending. Suggesting that pronunciation would have come up in research isn’t just demeaning, it’s also incorrect. If the research was all written, pronunciation would never have come up at all. I would say it is significantly more common for Americans to pronounce Yeats as Yeets, so it’s not unimaginable that a producer wouldn’t have caught it. As I said, even if they did catch it, it wouldn’t be unusual to make the executive decision that the time and energy it would take to correct something as minor as this wouldn’t be worth it, especially on a deadline. There are many names of historical figures where the common, modern pronunciations is incorrect. I can’t remember the last time I heard people pronounce Einstein, Bach or Van Gogh correctly. They are even mispronounced in high quality, big budget documentaries. This wasn’t a factual error. It wasn’t an egregious mistake where the audience wouldn’t know who she is talking about. It was a minor mispronunciation. Edit: Just to clarify, the reason I think this person was being a jerk is not because they made a correction, it’s the way they made it. If they simply said “I know this has probably been commented on already, but the correct pronunciation of Yeats is Yates” it would have been fine. Many other people DID correct them that way. This is the only comment on pronunciation I had a problem with.

@alexmacgregor9631 3 года назад

Love the bisexual vampire approach 😅

@tibaazher2792 3 года назад

Same

@Dj.MODÆO 2 года назад

Anne rice answered questions at a student literary event in the late 90s. Rices attraction and fascination with vampires is rooted in her belief that a mortal persons love is not 100% pure but is heavily influenced by a persons lust, biological drives, and instinct…….where with a Vampire who is free from those biological drives, they can genuinely love another for their soul and personality without biological influence. Also a vampire had the ability to turn one they love into another immortal and the two can be together forever. This is Rices ideal of perfect romance and love.

@audri8152 3 года назад

anne rice is my favorite author and favorite internet villain.

@janesmith2613 3 года назад

I am a fan of A.R. and understand her view. I understand why she would want to control her own IP just as much as any other content creator. People are so entitled now. "How dare you tell me not to use your IP! Your IP is meant for everyone to expand on, it's ours too now!" If you are so passionate about writing in a universe, create your own instead of lazily copying someone you admire. Or use it with the permission of the IP creator. But this sense of entitlement to other's IP is like a form of para-social delusion. Like they wish so much to have written it themselves and they connect so deeply to the content they insert themselves into creation of a world they can claim no authorship of. While I don't always agree with JK Rowling, I support her assertion that her published world is hers and if she chooses to make every wizard and witch suddenly of alien origin and this explains the source of all magic, then so be it. Create your own content and stop acting like a whining child when author's ask you to stop adulterating theirs.

@elif6908 3 года назад

No one was using her IP, if you’re gonna make grandiose claims about events at least attempt to understand the issue.

@janesmith2613 3 года назад

@@elif6908 They used her characters. Their names. I remember a friend introducing me to a fanfic that was a complete retelling of the Body Thief only now the characters were women. That is IP theft. You can condescend all you like. Fan fic is based on other's IP and worlds. That is why it is labeled FAN Fiction. it is a Fan's version of a world they are the fan of, not their own. Lazy. Entitled. Uncreative.

@audri8152 3 года назад

@@janesmith2613 lol stop being a whiney child and calm down.

@janesmith2613 3 года назад

@@audri8152 Will do my best ;)

@two_owls 3 года назад

This is what my tax dollars are going towards? More please!

@carolinemcgovern4488 3 года назад

I may not be American, but this is where tax dollars should go! More stuff like this, and I'm glad you approve of this type of usage

@anonb4632 3 года назад

@@carolinemcgovern4488 Into politically tendentious interpretations which aim for the deconstruction of Western Society? No, I don't think so. I don't pay taxes for that crap.

@Tinyvalkyrie410 3 года назад

@@anonb4632 corporation of public broadcasting involves less than one cent of every tax dollar, a small percentage of that goes to pbs, and most of that goes to local (often rural) television stations. Every pbs station that wants a cut of that very small pie has to apply for a grant, and it’s never guaranteed. The majority of pbs is privately funded, and I expect ALL of PBS digital is privately funded.

@alex0589 3 года назад

No your money goes to war. Pbs gets scraps. Barely

@jessesmoot1285 3 года назад

@@anonb4632 Cry about it more

@JennyTroutstanding 3 года назад

I am so grateful for Rice's work. Hit this nail right on the head, Elisa!

@animemusic8 2 года назад

I love her. I cried when I heard the news that she passed away. Miss her in her RU-vid channel.

@Vampireprice 3 года назад

"But Maaaven you say!"

@stephjovi 3 года назад

Man I loved interview with a vampire. Those were vampires. Staying together, admiring the first films because they can finally see the sun, struggling with their identity. Not going to high-school to screw teenagers

@Jennifahh 3 года назад

Still stupid. The human like vampire is very far from actual vampires that for sure are souless monsters.

@thefisherking2268 3 года назад

@@Jennifahh I’m scared to ask what you mean by ‘actual vampires’

@David-un4cs 3 года назад

@@Jennifahh ACTUAL vampires? Excuse me?!? Lol

@mariatxxxc 3 года назад

I remember watching the movie as a little child(yes, I was that kind of kid) and assuming Lestat and Louis were a couple with an annoying daughter

@nevaehsangel9620 3 года назад

Hahaha, that awesome, but soOOo off !😂💀💀

@David-un4cs 3 года назад

You were right though lol

@crylokrebs9552 3 года назад

I cackled at, “Byronic.”

@dlr_rosa254 3 года назад

I remember watching Interview with a Vampire late at night when I was 12 and being so enthralled with it. I loved it so much that I got the book and from there I decided to read the series. I was so lucky that my mom didn't look into what the series was about or she probably wouldn't let me read it 😅 Now that I'm older I can see how much Anne Rice's work has influenced me!!!!

@deadgirls3874 3 года назад

Anne Rice is one of my favorite authors she just knew how to blend historical fiction well I own most of her works.She just seemed like a very cool person and till this day is one of the most unique writers .

@Frosting1000 3 года назад

When I heard that Elisa wrote this episode I was like YESSSSSS

@Cruelty-Torture 3 года назад

I devoured Anne Rice's vampire chronicles when I was younger. May have to revisit and get the newer ones :)

@MarthadelPilarMoreno 3 года назад

I remember I read Queen of the Damn in less than a week because I could let the book out of my hands

@ClarenceDass 3 года назад

I picked up Interview with the Vampire when I was 13, back in 1995. Maybe I was too young or whatever, but it just totally floored me. It creeped me out, but it drew me in with it's rich atmosphere. I felt for Louis. Then when I read The Vampire Lestat, I was a hardcore fan of the Brat Prince. I've read up to Black Wood Farm and my favourite book is still Tale of the Body Thief. My favourite series of books.

@lordlemond1350 2 года назад

Simply brilliant. I cling to her words in these stories.

@rami_ungar_writer 3 года назад

I first read Anne Rice as a preteen and she was instrumental in making me the author I am today.

@biamartinsedit 3 года назад

So happy to see that Elisa Hansen wrote this ♥ And Lindsay hosted it perfectly! Anne is my favourite writer and a huge inspiration to my stories and my very young career as a writer.

@reed1159 3 года назад

lindsay's next vid is about to be "anne rice's lawyer emailed me and it only got worse from there"

@oliviawilliams6204 3 года назад

Doubt it. She softened a lot since the fan fiction debacle, and she's very involved with her fans. She just don't want to read fanfictions

@ThexDynastxQueen 3 года назад

Mean Girls But Stupid 2: Electric Boogaloo

@HobGungan 3 года назад

Funny you showed a clip from Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" adaptation as "whatever this is", when the ORIGINAL "Dark Shadows" soap was the ur-text for exactly the kind of "Vampires as Complex Characters" thing you were talking about, predating Rice and Interview by some years. As an aside: as both a fan of Tim Burton and someone with a fondness for the original Dark Shadows, I found the movie frustrating. It was a decent flick on its own, but for the most part a terrible adaptation of the show. The maddening thing is that it was SO CLOSE to being actually a great adaptation, but there were too many odd choices that mucked it up (I still mostly blame the screenplay, but Tim and Johnny are still at fault for running with it when if they were the fans they claimed they were they should have known better)

@jessicacarron8117 3 года назад

I’ve read nearly everything she’s written, and have been ever so slowly collecting her works in hardcovers, and first editions where possible.

@Littlepea2890 3 года назад

Two of my favorite things combined in this video! Never thought I’d ever see her do a video on Rice

@omnijam 3 года назад

I hope I say this right but I haven't really followed online critics or movie vloggers for a long time but I remember when Lindsay first showed up and I'm so proud she's now of freaking PBS! She always had smart, insightful things to say and share and I'm glad she made this far in her career. Congrats!

@Paintergrl1313 3 года назад

The vampire lestat is easily one of my favorite books. Top 5.

@memoryisamonster Год назад

Everyone i highly recommend AMC's interview with the vampire it's amazing

@amnlima26 3 года назад

Thanks Lindsey and it's lit! I feel she is often overlooked in literature as she has been my favorite author for a long time. It's nice to see her get some recognition.

@vampiretrunks 3 года назад

Lindsay Ellis did a video about Anne Rice? Ok, I can officially die happy.

@allegrafavila2613 3 года назад

Love this one!! Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles shaped my teenage years.

@Cresposts 3 года назад

Please do Shirley Jackson next.

@moniqueloomis9772 3 года назад

Yes please! Oh yes! 👏👏👏

@eliselianaboyd2547 3 года назад

The book is far far better than that horrible Netflix show that only has the title in common with the book. So far, the 1960's movie 🎥 does the best job of telling the story on film.

@Donteatacowman 3 года назад

Yes, I love her writing but I don't know that much about her personal life!

@wanderslostify 3 года назад

Agreed.

@cailinanne 3 года назад

Lindsay you look beautiful in that dress. Also I was surprised to learn a couple of things about Anne Rice. I think it’s time I revisit some old favorites.

@adgreenfield 2 года назад

The happy-sad-happy Pope graphic made me laugh-out-loud before 6am. Great video!

@coreya603 3 года назад

Thank you for this video. I sometimes forget what a powerful impact Interview had on me when I read it as a teen. “Transformative” would not be too strong a word.

@Frostfly 3 года назад

The tone here is so different then the tone Linsey uses on Anne Rice on her own channel...

@Andrei-yv8fz 3 года назад

Anne Rice has been my favourite author since the early 90s.

@wasd____ 3 года назад

The advice she was given on how to be successful in literature was, "Write about average, normal people." But Anne was like, "Nooooo, I wanna write about vampires!" with no luck. Then she became successful when she tied her vampire stories to her own personal experiences - turning her stories into, at their heart, writing about average, normal people. I guess sometimes the experts know what they're talking about after all. Oh and also there's the part about how Anne Rice hates her fans.

@Strawberria 3 года назад

This was just the pick me up I needed as I try to market/ get an agrnt for my own difficult to classify novels.

@davriecaro3036 3 года назад

Even though she is known for vampire literature. I LOVE HER HISTORICAL NOVEL FEAST OF ALL SAINTS!! I COULD NOT RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@chaosqueen20 3 года назад

Soon as I saw the title of the episode and that it featured Lindsay, I knew it had Elisa written all over it. Excellent video!

@laurenszymanski2975 3 года назад

I excepted a bit about the whole fan fiction thing, but it was super interesting hearing about her history.

@mhawang8204 3 года назад

It's covered in the fan fiction video of It's Lit! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bdDIMOehLm8.html

@sadie1606 2 года назад

May she rest in peace 🕊️

@retrovideogamedad8653 3 года назад

If it wasn't for Anne Rice, I wouldn't have started reading. I hated it and took me to be about 12 before I could really get it. I found one of her books and picked it up, that day I feel in love with books. I love the supernatural and its because of her.

@zlatkajupe 3 года назад

Sad fact - Claudia was based off of her daughter who passed away at a very young age

@zlatkajupe 3 года назад

@Jean G. D. S 15 Well. I knew a woman who lost her son when he was 22. She was never the same and died a few years later. She was less than 60. Very very sad for a parent to go through this.

@BonaparteBardithion 3 года назад

@Cannibal Teddy Tears in Heaven (I assume that's the one your mean) isn't specifically written to "make money" off his son's memory. While it was tied to a film, the lyrics were clearly about personal loss and Clapton performed it less as he moved past it. There's also a similar song in the Frozen II soundtrack that's equally about the film and about the grief experienced by a couple of the people that worked on the first film. Both songs were a source of cartharsis when I lost a young loved one and I'm sure it's the same for many other people who heard them. To reduce that kind of grief-rooted art to "making money" off someone's memory is beyond disrespectful.

@carsonmichalowski6075 3 года назад

This kind of analysis of specific triggers in fiction writing is what I love to learn about. How specific people or events have changed the basic thought process on topics for the world. And I for one can't wait to see an analysis on my favorite fiction author and horror icon: H.P. Lovecraft.

@purpleunicorn3999 3 года назад

I love her books since I was in elementary some 25-plus odd years ago. Her stories are just pure *chef’s kiss*.

@SemperErato 3 года назад

It was exciting to see another It's Lit! horror episode in my feed. My day is made.

@alyonastudies7769 3 года назад

I had the honour to learn from Dr Milly Williamson at Goldsmiths and was waiting for you to mention her!)

@minty737 2 года назад

I loved this book (and series) as a teenager, and still. It really resonated with my young closeted bi heart. I never knew the characters were meant to be gay! Haha how short sighted of me. I even re-read it as an adult and missed it. But now I know one more reason I loved Louis, the mournful, moral, gay vampire. I guess it's time to re-read them again!

@jasminearmstrong2855 2 года назад

So sad Anne is no longer with us. She is immortal

@grrfilter 3 года назад

feels like Lindsay was rapping Jay-Z's verse from Monster 😂

@lonerChise 3 года назад

ahhh yes, Vampires episode written by Ms Maven of the Eventide herself! ♥

@susansnezananovakovic7710 3 года назад

Anne's novels help me through depression a lot of the time.

@abbypayne4496 3 года назад

Frickin love Lindsay and Princess!!

@jasonblalock4429 3 года назад

Ugh, did you have to remind me that Burton's Dark Shadows was a thing? :-( (Plus, the original Dark Shadows is relevant here, since it had probably the first popular "sympathetic monster" portrayal of a Vampire...)