Supernatural In American Fiction And Soceity

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rn times. Media plays a large role in arousing the
public’s interest in the fantastic.21 The novels of Anne Rice, a gothic-horror writer, appeal to a
large audience, and her three book series have quite a cult following. Her two main series are
The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern
vampires through a vampire’s eyes, often as victims of the “dark gift”23 of vampirism, struggling
to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving on. A dominant theme in this
series is “the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul...”24 These books are
romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. Because of
this, a large following of Rice’s characters has developed, especially Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat
is the hypothetical author of The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the
Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.25 His fans, including Rice herself, are deeply fascinated by
this “tall, fair-skin...