This page will be switching focus soon from "Anne Rice & a little New Orleans" to "New Orleans and a little Anne Rice"
I also have a ton of new New Orleans Cemetery pics I'll be adding to my Cemeteries & Death page, so check back!
I was a member of Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club since the second year they began (just to impress everyone, my membership number is midway between 200 and 300), and attended the majority of their Annual Vampire Coven Balls in the 1990's. UPDATE: For info on the newly resurrected Vampire Lestat Fan Club click the link below:
Photos from the 2000 Anne Rice Fan Club Ball hosted on Mothernyc
NOLA Live has a page devoted to Anne and her followers and will even have a live webcast of the Coven Party this year. They also have images from past parties and "Anne" events.
Vampire Junction has photos from the 91-98 Vampire Balls & New Orleans cemeteries. They also have tons of vampire related links, images, poetry and more.
The Vampire's Coven Extensive page devoted to Rice and her fanged fiends, with a vamp chat, fan fiction, images, sound bytes and more.
The Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club has been resurrected from the dead! The new website features tons of photos from many of the parties, a message board, and the online store, Lestat's Dark Gift Shop, has licensed Lestat & friends items for sale including t-shirts, dolls, coffee, perfume and more.
And to see videos of both of the 2009 events visit my YouTube channel
NewOrleans.com Hotel, restaurant, tour, shopping info, etc.
NOLA Live The Times-Picayune site for the natives. News of NO, Anne Rice, Mardi Gras, and the wonderful Bourbocam with live photos of Bourbon Street 24 hours a day.
Crescent City Cemeteries is a great guide to the many cemeteries of New Orleans with photos, maps and even a 360 degree virtual tour.
Save Our Cemeteries is a New Orleans group dedicated to maintaining the wonderful old graveyards of the city. They also have a virtual photo tour of Lafayette #1.
My favorite food in New Orleans has got to be Creole pralines (I have a sweet tooth, OK!). They are thin and crisp and sugary compared to most pralines we have here in Texas which are chewy. You can actually order them through the internet now from several stores. My favorite are from Aunt Sally's in the French Market, but I haven't found a link for them yet. Other excellent ones can be obtained from Laura's Candies .
Voodoo in New Orleans... click on thumbnails for full sized image.
For more photos of New Orleans & Houston cemeteries click here
Dark Awakenings is run by Maven, who is affiliated with Sabretooth and makes fabulous fangs (I know because he made mine!). He resides in New Orleans but does travel to Goth clubs and conventions, and you can also get your fangs through the mail. Check his site or phone him at 504-914-4420 for more info.
The Witches Closet 521 St. Philip St. 504-593-9222 Neat little occult shop.
The Gothic Shop 830 Royal Street 504-558-0175 Nice but inexpensive decorative stone/plaster art. Friezes, plaques, gargoyles, urns, planters... Also has shops in Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum 724 Rue Dumaine, has a really ingenious little site that will give you info on the museum, and let you shop for neccessity's like Gris-Gris bags and Voodoo dolls and info on their walking tours (highly recommended!). FYI, their site link is down, check back...
Body Hangings 835 Decatur 504-524-9856 or 1-800-574-1823. Beautiful high quality capes, cloaks and shawls. Velvet and wool.
Esoterica 541 Rue Dumaine 504-581-7711 / 1-800-353-7001. Source for occult books, oils, herbs, gris-gris, mojos and tarot readings!
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Behind the scene photos. We were in New Orleans during the filming of Interview With the Vampire in 1993.
Update 11/2009: I will be rescanning these from the original photos and adding new unpublished ones soon!
Great little, inexpensive guidebook published by locals with lots of things to do in New Orleans that's a little out of the ordinary including the cemeteries (and which to avoid!), plus interesting stuff that you probably didn't know about New Orleans, including weird stuff that's happened around the city.
Over 200 color photos of the exteriors, interiors, and lush gardens of the beautiful, crumbling homes and buildings which exist in abundance in New Orleans. Gorgeous book! There are also some artfully shot photos of Mardi Gras (and no topless women!).
Originally published in 1961, rereleased in 1984 and out of print again, this is a collection of photos taken between 1936-1941 of the crumbling old plantations along the Mississippi River. Many of the houses photographed are no longer standing. The photos are beautiful, eerie black and white images, sometimes with other images superimposed upon them. Amazon Books claims they can still get copies of it. Laughlin's first book, "New Orleans and It's Living Past" is far out of print and supposed to be equally breathtaking. If anyone knows of a copy, please let me know. Look for "Ghost" on EBay, it pops up all the time.
Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin is a compliation of his works published in 1997 that is still in print and is about the most affordable way to get Laughlin's work. It's a beautiful book with lots of shots of New Orleans and it's cemeteries and lots of spooky old crumbling buildings.
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