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Several tales, actually. Will Howard, creator and distributor of Will's Texana Monthly, has compiled a bibliography of Texas vampire literature. He makes it available for free at his blog. How important is Texas in the vampire universe? Well, Will points out, it was a TEXAN who fatally impaled Vlad with his bowie knife in Bram Stoker's 1897 "Dracula." Will also made contact with the modern queen of vampire lit, Anne Rice. Loyal followers will know that she's a product of Richardson High. Will had asked about Texas locales in her work, and she said: "As I recall, the 'Queen of the Damned' was the only novel in which I used my Texas experience. Baby Jenks the little biker novel comes from the area around Cedar Creek lake where I lived, and I get to describe the towns." |
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Posted by Joy Tipping @ 9:06 PM Tue, Mar 11, 2008
Anne Rice also used a garden at Texas Woman's University as a setting for a scene in one of the Mayfair Witches books ... I think it's "The Witching Hour."