“I wrote novels about people who are shut out of life for various reasons.” Long before “Twilight” or “True Blood,” Rice introduced sumptuous romance, female sexuality and queerness - many took “Interview With the Vampire” as an allegory for homosexuality - to the supernatural genre. Thirteen of those were part of the “Vampire Chronicles” begun with her 1976 debut. “Interview With the Vampire,” in which reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, was Rice’s first novel but over the next five decades, she would write more than 30 books and sell more than 150 million copies worldwide. It’s also set to be adapted again in an upcoming TV series on AMC and AMC+ set to premiere next year. Rice’s 1976 novel “Interview With the Vampire” was later adapted, with a script by Rice, into the 1994 movie directed by Neil Jordan and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. “In her final hours, I sat beside her hospital bed in awe of her accomplishments and her courage.” “As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote. Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page. NEW YORK - 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.

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