<\/p>\nSymbolically speaking, Zack Behany of Warner Robins Georgia, said that author Anne Rice was a mother figure to him. Here, Behany waits in line to enter the Anne Rice All Saint’s Day Celebration at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
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Behany said he first discovered Rice in 2008 after the death of his father. Rice\u2019s psychological horror tale \u201cInterview with the Vampire\u201d offered him solace. \u201cIt was like she came into my world and said \u2018I know you\u2019re going through some stuff and I think I have some friends that can help you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Those friends, Behany said, were Louis, Lestat, Claudia, Armand, Santiago and all the characters in all of her books to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had one influence on me after another,\u201d he said. Later, Behany said, he corresponded with Rice via email. \u201cI would not be who I am today without her,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
In that, Behany spoke for many.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/p>\nAmmie Kenney and Whit Hubner of Nashville line up for the Anne Rice All Saint’s Day Celebration at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. Kenney said that though the event memorialized the beloved author who died in 2021, “I don’t think she’s far away.”<\/p>\n
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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nAmmie Kenney and Whit Hubner had come from Nashville for Rice’s long-postponed public sendoff. Hubner wore a scarlet mask evoking “Memnoch the Devil,” one of Rice’s many sinister inventions. Kenney, who wore bangs reminiscent of the author’s own, said that though the event recalled Rice’s death, “I don’t think she’s far away.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During Saturday\u2019s lengthy memorial presentation, actors recited select passages from Rice\u2019s novels, tenor David Michel sang \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water,\u201d a song Rice found especially comforting, and fellow horror authors described their devotion to the perennial bestseller, whom they considered a role model.<\/p>\n
The centerpiece of the presentation was an intimate documentary video that followed the life of the literary superstar who was born Howard Allen Frances O’Brien in 1941 in the Irish Channel. Footage shot during Saturday\u2019s event will be included in the documentary before it is released to the public.<\/p>\n
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Though Mayor-elect Helena Moreno did not attend the event, she arranged for a proclamation declaring Saturday to be Anne Rice Day in New Orleans.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/p>\nChristopher Rice captivates the audience as he delivers a eulogy to his mother, the legendary horror novelist Anne Rice, during the Anne Rice All Saint’s Day Celebration at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
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