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“I meant I wanted only to touch you, to feel how soft you are, how eternally young.”

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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

“The bandy little elf sat cross-legged in the embrace of a shaggy great willow, a triple pipe held in his hands and his head bowed over it. He blew breath through the reeds, but his fingers poised unmoving and the sound that whispered forth was more the wind through withies than any tune that Kit could call.”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:Hell and Earth

Source: Hell and Earth

“Poets are too precious to sacrifice carelessly,” he said, his long mouth downturned at the corners. “It had to be something other than Master Shakespeare himself.”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:Hell and Earth

Source: Hell and Earth

“What reason could possibly suffice for the murder of a boy barely old enough to prentice?” “What’s one mortal boy, more or less? They die soon enough, and one can always get another. Breed like rabbits, mortals do. And I needed thee, Kit, and needed thee fighting and thinking, not drowning in the dark. I thought if thy Shakespeare stepped back from his Queen, and thou didst go to comfort him, that there was a chance thou wouldst see the Mebd and dark Morgan for what they were, and win thy soul free. And it worked, it worked. How canst condemn me for that, when I had thee at heart, my dear?”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:Hell and Earth

Source: Hell and Earth

“At times I felt a huge exhilaration, a freedom from all falsehoods and conventions, all means by which a soul or body can be held hostage!”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:Pandora

Source: Pandora

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

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:The Mummy

Source: The Mummy

“I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is a thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:Pandora

Source: Pandora

“Ah, the nipples of men, so tender; such a key to torment and ecstacy; how he writhed as she twisted then ever so gently, her tongue daring in and out of his mouth.”

Speculative Historical Fiction

Book:The Mummy

Source: The Mummy

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