This was one of those articles I started to skip, but as I kept reading, it gave me a good laugh with some pause.

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She is a best-selling author known for novels about vampires. He is a minister who says he has seen and talked with angels. Anne Rice and Howard Storm have never met, yet they are working together to promote Storm’s book, My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life (Doubleday, $14.95).

Rice sees nothing strange about their collaboration. “Vampires and angels are very similar,” she says. “My discussion of vampires has always presented them as sort of the elegant inverse of angels.”

Rice says she, like Storm, was a “fashionable atheist” for many years. She re-embraced her Roman Catholic faith …(more)