LURID: Season Of The Witch

Column by Karina Wilson
Pointy hats? Wands? Green skin? Crones? Why is Hollywood still clinging to crude medieval stereotypes of witches? Lurid takes a look at a more intelligent class of witch lit.
Anne Rice's Erotic Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Gets A Re-release

Anne Rice's Erotic Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Gets A Re-release

News by Kimberly Turner July 10, 2012 (5) comments
Erotic BDSM trilogy for women? Anne Rice has been there, done that...thirty years ago. Plume re-releases Rice's steamy 'Sleeping Beauty' series to cash in on 'Fifty Shades' fever.

LURID: Spanky Panky, Fifty Shades of O

Column by Karina Wilson April 5, 2012 (6) comments
After the runaway success of the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trilogy, LURID compares it to some other well-thumbed examples of erotic fiction, including its BDSM bedmate, 'The Story of O'.
Review: 'The Wolf Gift' by Anne Rice

'The Wolf Gift' by Anne Rice

Review by Meredith Borders February 15, 2012 (5) comments
'The Wolf Gift' marks Anne Rice’s return to the gothic horror novels that her fans adore, this time taking a detour from vampire territory into the lair of the werewolf.

LURID: My Top 10 Bloody Valentines

Column by Karina Wilson February 14, 2012 (4) comments
Happy ever after? How dull can you get?! Lurid's Top Ten pick of the bloodiest, most doomed, destructive and messed up relationships in literature. Happy Valentine's Day!
 Christ the Lord; Out of Egypt

Anne Rice Novel About A 7-Year-Old Jesus Being Made Into Film

News by Rob W. Hart December 6, 2011 (1) comments
Anne Rice's novel, 'Christ the Lord; Out of Egypt', has been optioned for a movie--with a controversial writer tapped to write the screenplay.

Vampires: No Longer “The Ultimate Zipless Fuck?”

Column by Karina Wilson November 18, 2011 (10) comments
This month's LURID column: Has Twilight sucked all the fun out of vampire sex?
Sparkly vampires earn the ire of real vampires

Anne Rice Weighs In On The Debate Of Our Times: Should Vampires Sparkle?

News by Rob W. Hart October 31, 2011 (4) comments
Vampire Queen Anne Rice has sparked quite a bit of discussion on her Facebook page about the sparkly nature of vampires.