'Interview With the Vampire' author Anne Rice dies at 80

Renowned writer Anne Rice, known for her galore Gothic novels, has died astatine the property of 80, her household announced Sunday.

Rice died from complications of a changeable Saturday evening.

The fashionable writer is champion known for her caller “Interview With the Vampire," that was turned into a deed movie starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt 18 years aft it was written.

Rice wrote galore Gothic fearfulness novels, with her bid The Vampire Chronicles being her astir well-known works, with "Interview With the Vampire," "Queen of the Damned," and "The Vampire Lestat" among the works successful the series.

Her lad Christopher said that Rice volition beryllium interred successful the family's mausoleum astatine Metairie Cemetery successful New Orleans successful a backstage ceremony.

"The immensity of our family’s grief cannot beryllium overstated. As my mother, her enactment for maine was unconditional — she taught maine to clasp my dreams, cull conformity and situation the acheronian voices of fearfulness and self-doubt. As a writer, she taught maine to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions," Chrisotpher wrote. "In her last hours, I sat beside her infirmary furniture successful awe of her accomplishments and her courage, awash successful memories of a beingness that took america from the fog laced hills of the San Francisco Bay Area to the magical streets of New Orleans to the twinkling vistas of Southern California."

A solemnisation of Rice's beingness is being planned successful New Orleans that volition instrumentality spot adjacent twelvemonth and beryllium unfastened to the public.

This communicative was primitively reported by Camryn Justice connected news5cleveland.com.