“I offered readers everything that I couldn’t find myself: light touches, grace, accuracy; an imaginary kingdom, a kind of phantasmagoria in which people discover their need for sexual submission and “pretend” that someone, magnificent and irresistible, is forcing them to this,” writes the author in the preface to his trilogy. Welcome to the exquisite, sensual world created by Anne Rice. A world where there are no barriers to the fulfillment of any, even the most daring, desires.