Anne Rice is dead. The author of the iconic “Vampire Chronicles” was 80 years old

Rice’s death was announced via Facebook by her son, writer Christopher Rice. “This evening, Anne died of complications after a stroke. She left us almost exactly nineteen years after the death of my father, her husband Stan. It is impossible to describe the sadness of our family” – we read in the entry.

Anne Rice is dead. Her books have been read by millions

Christopher Rice noted that as a mother, Anne Rice taught him to “fight for dreams, reject conformism and challenge the dark voices of fear and doubt.” “As a writer, she taught me to break the boundaries of genres and surrender to passion. In her final hours I sat at her hospital bed, delighted with her achievements and courage, bathed in memories from the misty hills of San Francisco Bay, through the magical streets of New Orleans, to the twinkling views of southern California, “Rice described and added,” Anne’s little sister Karen kissed her goodbye and said, ‘But you gave us a ride, kid.’ I think we can all agree with her. “

Anne Rice was born in 1941 in New Orleans. Her first book, Interview with the Vampire, starring the immortal Lestat, was written in just five weeks from a story written several years earlier. Rice wrote the novel shortly after the death of her several-year-old daughter Michelle, which served as an inspiration for the character of the little vampire Claudia. Although initially “Interview with the Vampire” did not meet with unequivocally positive reception, it became a bestseller and resulted in the series of “Vampire Chronicles”.

In addition to gothic literature, Rice also dealt with, inter alia, historical themes (“Feast of All Saints”, “Scream in the heavens”). After she converted to the Catholic faith, she wrote, inter alia, the trilogy “Christ the Lord”, following the fate of Jesus, and two books from the series “The Time of Angels”. In 2005, she even announced that she would write “only for the Lord”. In 2012, she decided to return to her gothic roots with the novel “Dar wilka”, which was continued under the title “Wolf Solstice”. Despite earlier assurances that she would not write any more “Chronicles of the Vampires”, by 2018 she had published three more novels set in the world of bloodsuckers.