[Aleya]

Anne Rice is always in the Horror section, but someone please tell me which books of hers are the Horror ones!

I read the Vampire chronicles, and while the subject matter is inherantly 'dark' I hardly think that qualifies them as Horror, especially in this day and age when Vamps and Mummies are on kids TV and such.

That's all I've read of hers though. Anyone got some info?

Aleya - http://silver-oak.com

[Cadfael]

The Witching Hour is definitely horror, although more psycological(sp?... sorry) horror, than in your face blood curdling hooror.

The Vampire Chronicles, yes... they are horror as well IMHO. But I can understand what you are saying.

In most internet listings, she is in both the fantasy and horror sections, so we have to make our own minds up I suppose.

[FitzChivalry]

Dark/Gothic Urban Fantasy?

The main difference between dark urban fantasy and vampire type horror books is the intention of the story, if the intention is to scare it's horror, if it's just to tell a dark story, it's dark fantasy.

[Aleya]

Perhaps it could be to do with how many years ago her books were released? In any case I don't think they were meant to scare. I'm gonna go buy some more of her stuff now that it's in my head http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

Aleya - http://silver-oak.com

[Puck]

That's a good point... there is nothing really "scary" in the Vampire Chronicles.

[Hexa]

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world... On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds - justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to a whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat