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With 2021 concluding we're looking back at all of the celebrities and influential people who died this year.

Anne Rice told stories about gothic supernatural beings for decades, ones that enthralled generations of LGBTQ readers in particular.

Horror icon Anne Rice, best known for writing Interview with the Vampire and its follow-up books, has passed away.

NEW YORK — Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.

Anne Rice, American author best known for her novels about vampires and other supernatural creatures. Her notable works included the Vampire Chronicles, which largely feature the vampire Lestat, and a trilogy about the Mayfair witches. Rice also wrote books about Christianity. Learn more about her life and work.

Her first novel was the lush, bestselling gothic tale Interview with the Vampire, but Rice would go on to write more than 30 books and sell 150 million copies worldwide.

Anne Rice was the author of the 1976 novel “Interview With the Vampire,” which was adapted into the 1994 movie and is also set to be adapted again in an upcoming TV series.

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 was the author of the 1976 novel “Interview With the Vampire,” which was adapted into the 1994 movie and is also set to be adapted again in an upcoming TV series.

Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including "Interview With a Vampire," reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.