1.   Desperate for some sign things were going to get better, Due was assigned an interview with horror novelist Anne Rice.

2.   Horror novelist Anne Rice lives here, in a gray Gothic mansion that attracts a steady stream of sightseers.

3.   Stark Raving Mad. Half-hour comedy series about a prissy book editor and an earthy horror novelist.

4.   The accident injuring horror novelist Stephen King last month seems to have touched off a great buzz about safety belts for pets.