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It actually was a dark and stormy night. Angry thunderheads cloaked Houston's Hobby International Airport, and flash-flood warnings were being broadcast on the radio. The forecast was for as much as ten inches of rain before the end of the day. As the limousine plowed through the downpour, the passengers recall, the water was rising almost midway on the door panels. The driver turned and asked Anne Rice if she had brought the foul weather with her. Rice—the author of
Interview with the Vampire and a half-dozen best-selling novels about the demonic doings of witches, ghosts. and other unearthly creatures in a whole series of dark and stormy nights—could only smile. Lately, she has been accused of greater mischief than mucking with the heavens.