And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

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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.