It’s so long since I’ve read anything by Poppy Z. that it’s all mushed in my head. How embarrassing! I’ll have to hunt them out if I still have them…

Out of the whole of her stuff I gelled most with Queen of the Damned. I didn’t ever finish Lestat or Memnoch…. but I was a teenager at the time so my tastes my be considerably different if I read them again now.

Some books I guess are a reflection of the time when they are read.

I guess the best vampire books I’ve read are Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice and Blood by Poppy Z Brite

I take it you mean Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. But, since that wasn’t a vampire novel, it take it you really mean Lost Souls. I haven’t read Brite for years, can barely remember much of the books, but a few short stories still stick in my mind, of which her best, His Mouth Will Taste Of Wormwood, is one.

As for Rice: Queen Of The Damned! Really? Saying that, I thought Memnoch The Devil was the best of the original five Chronicales, while everyone else disagreed with me.