[caption id="attachment_2127" align="aligncenter" width="450"]
Bram Stoker and Anne Rice, both genre defining prolific artists that helped craft the modern vampire novel![/caption]And in this latest round it is, Bram Stoker Vs. Anne Rice, both writers, both writers of prolific, genre defining Vampire novels, and both have had their Vampire novels made in to movies... So the question is, Anne Rice Vs. Bram Stoker...
As for Bram Stoker, I will say this, his work on, 'Dracula' truly blazed a trail that has lead to not just the modern vampire novel, but also set the stage for what the Vampire fiction world in just about all it's forms still follow today, and the novel it's self was an amazing read that for me personally took the novel in a different direction... One that I truly believe may have inspired, 'Stephen King' when he was writing, 'Carrie' (1976)!
Now as for really the primary bad points, and one of them really doesn't involve him, but more his work... And these are 2 fold... 1. Even though he wrote other works of fiction in his day, they were all eclipsed by, 'Dracula' and have lost their importance in literary history... And 2: When the first adaptation of Dracula was in the beginning stages of being made, Stoker's widow fought so vehemently against the movie being made, that F.W. Murnau tried to get around it, and the world almost lost a true classic in the movie, Nosferatu (1922)... Fortunately it turns out a print was found decades later and the movie now enjoys international celebrity!
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="325"]
Bram Stoker, a man who live on through, 'Dracula' forever![/caption]And now for, Anne Rice... Well the truth is, is her work on, 'The Vampire Chronicles' went on for many decades, and all in all, mostly great novels, the truth is, is her works beyond, 'The Vampire Chronicles' will live on pretty nicely in the other novels that she has written, including: Exit To Eden (a novel that was also made in to a movie,), the, 'Lives Of The Mayfair Witches' series, etc... And the fact that there has been rumors that one of the characters from, 'The Vampire Chronicles' may make a modern day appearance... (That series ended about a decade ago, with the release of the novel, 'Blood Canticle'.) Also her novels are so popular that at least one point, fans from all over the world would flock to her place in New Orleans decked out to look like Vampires from her novels!
Really the main problem that I have with her and her work, is that some how the studios just butchered 2 of her novels when they tried to make an amalgamation of the 2 novels for the movie, Queen Of The Damned (2002)!
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"]
Anne Rice, a truly brilliant writer![/caption]In the end, I am going to have to give the title to Anne Rice... In the end Bram Stoker started the trend, but in the end I think Anne Rice modernized it.... What do you think?
