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“She felt herself turning inward, away from all of it, back into the darkness, into the dark water whence she’d come.”

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Anne Rice is an American author known for her gothic and fantasy novels, born on October 4, 1941. Her most famous work, 'The Vampire Chronicles', has gained her a wide readership and influenced vampire culture. more

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