“The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me.”
Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief
Lestat
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
“My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories,
which cannot be believed and which are true. They
are horror stories and they have not happened to me,
they have not yet happened to me, they have
happened to me but we are detached, we watch our
unbelief with horror.”
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
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