You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’s why you can heal a blind man as Joseph saw you do, that’s why you can pray for snow and there will be snow, that’s why you can dispute with your uncle Cleopas when he forgets you’re a boy, that’s why you make sparrows from clay and bring them to life. Keep your power inside you. Guard it until your Father in Heaven shows you the time to use it. If he’s made you a child, then he’s made you a child to grow in wisdom as well as in everything else.

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A few hours later Anne Rice clarified her motives:

“In the name of Christ I refuse to be anti-gay. I broke with the church. "

In her memoir Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession Rice also states:

In the moment of surrender I let go of all the theological or social questions which had kept me from [God] for countless years.

Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics by various publiAnne Ricers. Several years later Anne Rice distanced herself from organized Christianity citing disagreement with the Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained "central to [her] life. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles in 1994 and Queen of the Damned in 2002.