By Philip Odango "I know you crave to have the world at your feet. So I've come to give it to you." - Akasha, Queen of the Damned (film) Anne Rice's dreamscapes of vampires set against centuries of decadence and decay filled my youth with emotive feelings of skipping through time in ancient Egypt, France, New Orleans and the deserts of California. For decades, her vision of a malevolent spirit and a blood-thirsty queen mother fascinated me in all the book and film interpretat