Interview With a Penitent [Vampire]

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I got lost last night.

No, it didn't happen on my way home from the library. Instead, it happened after I arrived home and settled down with one of the books I'd checked out.

Suddenly, I was adrift in a darkness I'd never experienced before—and perhaps shouldn't have been experiencing—as I reeled through centuries and across continents in the midst of vampires, murder, and blood.

One hundred pages later, I closed Interview with the Vampire and tried to sleep, but even in my dreams I couldn't find my way out of the novel's black, tortuous world of evil.

It's a miracle, then, that the novel's well-known author, Anne Rice, has finally found her own way out of the darkness of doubt and confusion after years of wandering. Our "Interview with a Penitent" chronicles Anne's journey from her strict Catholic upbringing to her fascination with vampires, and also uncovers the surprising road she traveled on her way back to God.

Her journey to faith is one that book critic John Wilson foresaw years ago as he read Rice's first novel. In "The Vampire and the Cross," his keen reflections on her early work—and on her most recent book about Christ—reveal just how extraordinary her return to Christianity is.

So as you read her story and marvel at God's persistent pursuit of the lost, take a moment to thank him for finding you! ...

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Andrea Bianchi,
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