Anne Rice, RIP at 80

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers of dark fiction, passed away. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, especially Interview with the Vampire, she also wrote about mummies, witches, and werewolves. Outside horror, she wrote several erotic works under pseudonyms and a duology about Jesus Christ.

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I read Interview with the Vampire back in the early eighties around the time the second Vampire Chronicle, The Vampire Lestat, came out. I read her pretty religiously for about a decade, maybe more, but eventually kind of burned out on her. Not sure if it was me, but I found her later works lacked the lustre that drew me at the beginning. Kept meaning to go back but never quite got up to it. Can't say she was a big influence on my current fiction, or at least not as influential as some other writers like Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, and Lovecraft, but I imagine it is there if I looked carefully.

Oh wow . Sad to hear of her passing . She was an amazing writer . I loved Interview with a Vampire

My heart goes out to her family.

She left a long legacy of books

Scott, I had the same experience with her books. I loved Interview with the Vampire and eagerly awaited each new book about him and vampire history. I remember her being very angry over the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat, but when she saw the finished movie, she was happy with his performance. I lost interest at some point as the chronicles went on. I didn't realize until later that she had written erotica. I have read a few books that her son Christopher Rice has written.

It was announced recently that AMC is adapting some of her novels for their platform, starting with Interview with the Vampire. It will be interesting to see a new version, but sad she did not live to see a whole new audience find her works.

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It was announced recently that AMC is adapting some of her novels for their platform, starting with Interview with the Vampire. It will be interesting to see a new version, but sad she did not live to see a whole new audience find her works.

She and Christopher have been involved in the development of the project and were supposed to get Executive Producer credits but I have not heard anything about progress on it in a while.