Description: Anne Rice has single-handedly re-popularized the vampire genre for a massive international audience of every age & social class. But moreover, she has spawned a subculture that has taken on a life of its own independent from its vampiric mother. In the Shadow of the Vampire offers a close up view of Rice's devotees & the disciples, fangs & all. Over 100 photographs from Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans as well as other events serve as a portrait of this growing subculture. The photographs illustrate the themes the readers relate to in their fantasies & everyday lives & the extremes to which they will go to be close to their mentor. The subjects of the photographs, the fans themselves, explain in accompanying interviews their spiritual relationships to romance, eroticism, loneliness, bloodlust, or outsider status of the characters in her books. From the people who sleep in coffins to the teenage Goth-rockers to the HIV-positive man who found a deep allegorical comfort in the vampire Lestat, their responses range from burlesque to the sublime. Jana Marcus has been producing award-winning documentary photography for over 15 years & is the winner of UC Berkeley's 1994 International Photojournalism Contest.

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