04 These names are a bit wordy, is there a shorter way of referring to them? (Anne Rice)
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This article is from the Anne Rice FAQ, by Laura Troise talset@eskimo.com with numerous contributions by others.
04 These names are a bit wordy, is there a shorter way of referring to them? (Anne Rice)
Yes there is, but only for some of the books. Others either
have short enough names or just aren't talked about enough
for a shorthand form to be necessary. Here's how some of
the books are referred to either in writing or conversation
(and how I'll write them in this FAQ):
Feast of All Saints: FOAS
Cry to Heaven: CtH
Exit to Eden: EtoE
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy: The Beauty books
The Witching Hour: TWH (Though this series is known as the
Lives of the Mayfair Witches, for some reason this title has
not caught on. It is referred to as the TWH series)
Interview With the Vampire: Interview or IWTV (Note: some people
will call IWTV "Vampire" but this is discouraged by most as
the word "Vampire" can refer to far too many things in the series
for the meaning to be clear.)
The Vampire Lestat: Lestat, TVL
The Queen of the Damned: Queeen, TQD, QotD
The Tale of the Body Thief: Body Thief, TotBT
Memnoch the Devil: Memnoch, Mem., MtD
The Vampire Chronicles: VampChron (Sometimes it's written as
VC but this often gets confused with The Vampire Companion
which is called VC more often than VampChron is so VampChron
is more common. In this FAQ, VC will refer to the
Companion, which I'll talk about later, only).
Servant of the Bones: SotB
Anne's newsletter, Commotion Strange, will be written as
CS with the appropriate letter number beside it whenever
I'm quoting from it directly.
A complete list of all the abbreviations used on
alt.books.anne-rice can be found on the abar FAQ. See
the "Bleeding Edge of Technology" section in part 2 of
the AR FAQ for more information.
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