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"I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways"

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A promise disguised as a shrug, Anne Rice’s line signals a career-long refusal to treat the supernatural as escapist décor. “Keep on” is the tell: it frames ghosts, vampires, and angels less as genre flirtations than as an ongoing method of inquiry. Rice isn’t pledging loyalty to fantasy; she’s insisting that the unreal is the most efficient language for certain kinds of truth.

The subtext is both aesthetic and personal. Rice’s supernatural isn’t about jump scares or mythology trivia. It’s a staging ground for appetite, shame, sensuality, loneliness, and belief - the messy parts of human life that polite realism often trims away. “In a lot of ways” widens the aperture: she can move from Gothic horror to religious longing to historical melodrama without forfeiting her central project. The supernatural becomes a tool kit for testing identities, especially bodies and desires, under heightened lighting.

Context matters: Rice rose in a late-20th-century moment when horror and pop spirituality were colliding with new frankness about sex and alienation. Her vampires weren’t villains to be vanquished; they were neurotic immortals wrestling with ethics, art, family, and God. That reorientation helped mainstream the idea that “genre” could carry literary weight, and it prefigured today’s prestige TV habit of using monsters as metaphors for trauma and social power.

The intent, then, is quietly defiant. She’s not moving on from the supernatural because she never used it as a phase. For Rice, it’s the home address of the inner life.

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Rice, Anne. (2026, January 17). I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-going-to-keep-on-dealing-with-the-supernatural-42594/

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Rice, Anne. "I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-going-to-keep-on-dealing-with-the-supernatural-42594/.

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"I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-going-to-keep-on-dealing-with-the-supernatural-42594/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Anne Rice (October 4, 1941 - December 11, 2021) was a Novelist from USA.

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