Myth and legend are a huge part of Anne Rice’s oeuvre given the fact that so much of her legacy is plugged into the world of vampires, something she was writing about long before Twilight or True Blood ever came along. With her latest effort, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Knopf), Rice intertwines her rock-star-turned-vampire-king protagonist Lestat with the fictional isle of Atlantis. And while the Louisiana native initially started out trying to pen a project about the latter, Lestat proved to help break the New Orleans native’s writer’s block.
