One thing about Anne Rice novels is that they are all full of life. In the late 1970s, Rice made a decision that will forever shape the tone in which gothic novels are read, as well as written. The life changing of novels came when Rice decided to turn her brand of gothic novels like Interview with the Vampire into a brand that captured both the past and actual events like the Sophia Lee’s The Recess.
Although Rice’s novels did not include actual historicism, they did evoke different periods of time and settings for all of the gothic protagonists that traveled globally. By Anne’s historical-gothic novels easily moving witches and vampires from past to present, this opened the door for her and others to drive the tone of novels where they have never gone. In many of Anne’s adaptations of gothic conventions, she creatively humanizes her gothic characters to form villian-heros that appeared to live within a social context.
Rice’s novels are also built around a journey towards awareness and renewal through destruction. In addition to that, as the innovative historical-gothic novels continue, the gothic characters that are used are geared towards learning how to live and survive within an existential reality.