Its an Anne Rice book (or Anne Rampling...her porn fic handle) And Odonnel's Akroyd's characters were not in the book. They were written in to the movie, apparently to make the movie more marketable to the main stream. Its a damn shame. The movie sucked badly. In fact, I think Anne Rice herself spent some time publicly railing against it. That woman has some hot fantasies. Stan is a lucky guy.