title: Autobiography Of A Worm
author:  Ed Tasca 
description: Originally from Philadelphia, Ed has earned a living writing throughout his life in just about every capacity, starting out as a copywriter and developing into a novelist and screenwriter. He moved to Toronto, and spent the last 25 years there. His wife and partner of 8 years Diana Rowland, an experienced actress, lives with him. The couple winters in Ajijic, Mexico. Literary Representative:  928 Inc. Los Angeles.
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  By Anne Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  FOR
  
  
  Stan Rice
  
  
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  Christopher Rice
  
  
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  Nancy Rice Diamond
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # THE TALAMASCA
  
  
  
  
  
  _Investigators of the Paranormal_
  
  
  _We watch_
  
  
  _And we are almays here._
  
  
  # LONDON AMSTERDAM ROME
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **MERRICK**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Proem
  
  
  MY NAME is David Talbot.
  
  
  Do any of you remember me as the Superior General of the Talamasca, the Order
  of psychic detectives whose motto was "We watch and we are always here"?
  
  
  It has a charm, doesn't it, that motto?
  
  
  The Talamasca has existed for over a thousand years.
  
  
  I don't know how the Order began. I don't really know all the secrets of the
  Order. I do know however that I served it most of my mortal life.
  
  
  It was in the Talamasca Motherhouse in England that the Vampire Lestat first
  made himself known to me. He came into my study one winter night and caught me
  quite unaware