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Anne Rice, prolific writer of many Gothic horror novels that brought up to date the stories of vampires, died at the age of 80.

Anne Rice, a writer to whom many Gothic novels are owed such as interview with a vampire, who reinvented and relaunched the genre, died Saturday at the age of 80.

Her son, author Christopher Rice, confirmed on her mother's Facebook page that she had died following complications from a stroke.“She left us almost nineteen years after the death of my father, her husband Stan.The immensity of our family's grief cannot be exaggerated, wrote Christopher.Let us comfort ourselves in the hope that Anne is now having the direct experience of the glorious answers to the many spiritual and cosmic questions whose quest has defined her life and her career.»»

Rice's successful works also covered the genres of romantic and erotic fiction and Christian literature, but it was in the field of Gothic horror that the writer from New Orleans had the mostImpact, starting with his first novel in 1976, an interview with a vampire, wrote while Rice cried the death of his young daughter Michelle.The novel (the first volume of what has become a vast series known as Chronicles of Vampires) has only become a cultural phenomenon that almost twenty years later, when a film was released in theaters, with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst (Rice had written the script itself).The film has rekindled the interest in the book and probably inspired the many successful works on the vampires that have followed it since: True Blood, the Twilight series, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy against the Vampire….

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Among the other novels of the Chronicles of Vampires, let us quote Lestat le Vampire, the Queen of Damnés (adapted on the big screen in 2002 with Aaliyah), and what was ultimately Rice's last book in the series: Blood Communion, in 2018. In 2018. In 2018. In 2018. In 2018. In 2018.2006, Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote their first partition on Broadway for Lestat, based on the chronicles of Rice vampires;An AMC to come, The Vampire Chronicles, is also inspired by novels.

Under the name of Anne Rampling's pen, Rice also wrote in 1985 the erotic novel Exit To Eden and, in recent years, she joined her son Christopher for a series of novels, Ramses Le Damné.

Christopher Rice added that Anne would be buried in a private ceremony and buried in the family mausoleum in the Metairie cemetery in New Orleans."Next year, a celebration of his life will take place in New Orleans.This event will be open to the public and will invite the participation of his friends, readers and fans who brought him so much joy and inspiration throughout his life.»»

Daniel Kreps

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