Anne Rice, who spun gothic tales of vampires, dies at 80
Anne Rice was a largely unknown writer when she turned a short story she had written in the late 1960s into ‘Interview With the Vampire’, her first published novel.
Anne Rice, the gothic novelist best known for Interview With the Vampire, the 1976 book that in 1994 became a popular film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, died on Saturday. She was 80.
Her son, Christopher Rice, wrote on social media that the cause was complications from a stroke. His post did not say where she died.
