![]() ![]() ![]() The Devil prefers to be called Memnoch (God is satisfied with just plain God). Suddenly, the Devil arrives on the scene. Rice abandons this plot line after about 150 pages, perhaps saving it for her sixth installment. Rice's favorite character, the homoerotic vampire Lestat, stalking his latest victims, a wealthy drug baron and his televangelist daughter, Dora. "Memnoch the Devil" starts out promisingly enough with Ms. In this, the fifth installment of the Vampire Chronicles, however, Ms. She has always had a talent for placing the monsters of age-old legends into the modern world and making them seem really quite human, with emotions and sexual desires. Rice has become the mistress of macabre by producing a best-selling novel about once a year for either her Vampire Chronicles or Mayfair Witches series. ![]()
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