I guess that’s not very hard. But still. A cautionary tale for the darkly-souled among us: one day you too will look like someone’s grandmother and be preaching about angels instead of vampires. Yes, I know. Not you. She said that too once. And now look at her. “Would you like some tea, sonny?” It’s coming, Cruella and Vlad. It’s coming.

“Being on the side of the angels, it feels much better than being on the side of the vampires. Vampires were tortured, tragic figures,” Rice told the Wall Street Journal. Her novel, Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim, follows the adventures of Toby O’Dare, an American killer who is given the chance by a mysterious stranger (who turns out to be an angel) to go back to 13th century England to find salvation.

“Vampires for me were always like feeling grief for my lost childhood faith, being cut off from that life. I reached the point where I didn’t have any more stories to tell from that point of view,” explained the author, who said the angel series was “In keeping with [her] commitment to do Christian fiction in a variety of forms” since she converted from atheism back to her childhood Catholicism in 1998.