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Article: Anne Rice's of `The Queen of the Damned,' Creating a Vampire History of the World
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- The Washington Post
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- November 6, 1988
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"I've never seen a ghost, but I have had two or three
extraordinary-dreams," says Anne Rice.
"I had a prophetic dream of my daughter dying of something wrong
with her blood. A horrible, horrible dream."
Not long after, when Michelle Rice was 4, Rice learned that the
child was indeed ill, with a curious, adult form of leukemia.
Michelle lived two years, a long time for a small girl whose white
blood cells were eating up the red. She died just before her sixth
birthday, in 1972.
"It was the most clear example of a prophetic dream I've ever
heard of," Rice says, and shudders.
That was when Rice began writing "Interview With the Vampire."
Claudia, an eternal child with a history of ...