Anne Rice Goes from Vampires to Werewolves

The legendary Anne Rice forever changed vampires with the release of her highly influential novel Interview with the Vampire, and her following vampire books earned her the honor of having one of the greatest vampire series ever written. Love her or hate her, you can’t deny the impact this woman has made on the world of vampires. Even though our beloved Anne stopped writing about vampires years ago, her fans still crave more. Anne’s upcoming novel might be just what we have been waiting for, it may not be a vampire book, but it is paranormal horror! The Wolf Gift is set to hit bookstores next month, February 14, 2012, and this book tells the tale of a werewolf. Yes yes, this is a vampire website where we cover vampire news, however, considering how much we love Anne here and how amazing it is that she’s writing about classic monsters again, I had to give the book some love.

Check out the book description below:

“A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic. . . unforgettable.”), the Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature”), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (“remarkable.”). A whole new world—modern, sleek, high-tech, and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history—the making of a werewolf, re-imagined and re-invented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create it.

The time is the present.

The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,” by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.”

I am beyond excited for this book! I love both vampires and werewolves, and the fact that one of my all-time favorite authors is writing about both makes me ecstatic. I also hope Anne can do for werewolves what she did for vampires, I wouldn’t mind a full-out werewolf craze.

What do you think of The Wolf Gift? Will you give the book a read or will you pass since it’s not a vampire book?

– Moonlight

By Moonlight

Moonlight (aka Amanda) loves to write about, read about and learn about everything pertaining to vampires. You will most likely find her huddled over a book of vampire folklore with coffee in hand. Touch her coffee and she may bite you (and not in the fun way).

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  4. Interesting. I wonder what Anne’s take on werewolves will be like. Hopefully they won’t look like huge dogs! LOL! No, I will read this book because I like werewolves too and I want to see what she can do with them.

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