Anne Rice, author of gothic novels, dead at 80

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist wide known for her bestselling caller “Interview with the Vampire,” died precocious Saturday astatine the property of 80.

Rice died owed to complications from a stroke, her lad Christopher Rice announced connected her Facebook leafage and his Twitter page.

“In her last hours, I sat beside her infirmary furniture successful awe of her accomplishments and her courage,” Christopher Rice wrote successful the statement.

Anne Rice was the writer of the 1976 caller “Interview with the Vampire,” which was aboriginal adapted into a movie starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt successful 1994. It was besides expected to beryllium portrayed successful a TV series connected AMC and AMC+ successful 2022.

Rice was expected to beryllium interred during a backstage ceremonial astatine a household mausoleum successful New Orleans connected an undisclosed date, according to the statement. A nationalist solemnisation of beingness was to instrumentality spot adjacent year.

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