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Dans cette première autobiographie, l'éminent professeur Katherine Ramsland nous offre un portrait révélateur de Anne Rice, la femme.

Un historique des circonstances qui ont conduit à l'écriture de ces irrésistibles livres macabres et interdits ; et des analyses en profondeur de ces romans majeurs, y compris INTERVIEW AVEC UN VAMPIRE, LESTAT LE VAMPIRE, L'HEURE DES SORCIÈRES, et la trilogie de SLEEPING BEAUTY (non encore traduit en français).

Voici l'histoire complète de la jeune Anne Rice, née Howard Allen O'Brien dans la ville gothique de ew-Orléans ; de sa mère brillante et folle et d'un père complexe qui emmenait sa fille en promenade dans des cimetières décadents ; de l'amour passionné de Anne pour le poète Stan Rice qui débutera dès son adolescence; de leur vie commune dans le San Francisco turbulent des sixties ; et de ses premiers efforts en tant qu'écrivain qui atteindra son paroxysme à la mort de sa fille.

Immédiatement dérangeante et fascinante, cette somme dramatique d'informations nous montre une Anne Rice - l'auteur et la femme- éclatante et vivante.

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began to play risky games with the police. He made a mistake. When he was arrested, Rader’s family, friends, and coworkers were shocked to discover that B.T.K. had been among them, going to work, raising his children, and acting normal. This case stands out both for the brutal treatment of victims and for the ordinary public face that Rader, a church council president, had shown to the outside world. Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence, Katherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader’s unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man’s motivation to stalk, torture, and kill. She reveals aspects of the dark motivations of this most famous of living serial killers that have never before been revealed. In this book Katherine Ramsland presents an intelligent, original, and rare glimpse into the making of a serial killer and the potential darkness that lives next door.