LOS ANGELES (Wide range.com) — Anne Rice, influential writer of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to problems resulting from a stroke. She was 80.

The author’s son Christopher in this article unveiled the news on Fb and explained that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a non-public ceremony.

Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice became renowned the earth above as a writer of gothic fiction, with her guides offering more than 150 million copies globally. In the early 1970s, although grieving the dying of her daughter Michelle, she began converting 1 of her tales into what grew to become her initial novel, the gothic horror “Interview with the Vampire,” which was published by Knopf in 1976. The novel turns on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the tale of his existence to a reporter. Michelle served as an inspiration for the little one vampire Claudia.

The reserve was the 1st of 10 in what is collectively recognized as “The Vampire Chronicles.” It was adapted by Neil Jordan as a 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater, with Kirsten Dunst enjoying Claudia. Rice adapted the screenplay from her novel and the film gathered two Oscar nominations and a brace of BAFTA wins.

“Queen of the Damned,” dependent on 1 of the bestselling sequels to “Interview with the Vampire,” was tailored as a film in 2002. Other adaptations of Rice’s novels involve Garry Marshall’s “Exit to Eden” (1994), starring Dana Delany, Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O’Donnell and Emmy-successful Showtime unique “The Feast of All Saints” (2001).

Before this thirty day period, AMC requested a sequence dependent on Rice’s “Lives of the Mayfair Witches.” As discovered by Range, AMC had obtained legal rights to “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” and “The Vampire Chronicles” last calendar year, and casting was a short while ago finalized on the latter.