November 21, 2007 (Spiegel Online) -- Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco, an adopted descendant of Count Dracula, has died in Germany aged 67 after spending a colorful life organizing blood donor parties and medieval festivals at his estate in eastern Germany.

After vowing to never again write about Lestat, this best seller reveals she has one more vampire novel in her. Her newest religious book is Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana.  Anne Rice recently engaged in an online chat to answer questions from fans.

1. Do you ever plan to write additional books for the Vampire Chronicles series?

I wake with a start, eyes flicking open and scanning around me.

The room is quite light where the curtains are letting in the beams of the full moon.

In the distance a fox barks, probably what woke me.

I feel alone and uneasy for a moment, then my sleepy mind remembers you are with me.

Your warm body next to me in our bed, your steady breathing comforts me.

There was nothing that happened , Noone involved,

nothing to miss.

A brief loss of consciousness, asleep at the wheel.

I'm quite well awake now, with time on my side.

Nothing to cling to, nothing to hide.

A very small trip it was,

Couldn't even break my stride.

It never existed, and still never was,

May 12, 2007 (The Guardian / Gavin Bell) -- Mati the blacksmith was worried. A Romanian gypsy, he was usually in lively good humour, but today he was distraught. Recently men from a television company had come to his village, offering to install satellite dishes for free, and his daughter had taken one. Now he had been sent a bill for renting it, and he didn't have the money - or a television. His daughter had gone to work in Hungary and taken it with her. So he feared the worst. Would the police take him to prison?