‘Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches’ Gets Series Order, Joins ‘Interview With the Vampire’ On AMC

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.Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote.

, has died. She was 80.

Anne Rice, the beloved author who penned “The Vampire Chronicles” — which included “Interview With the Vampire” — has died. She was 80 years old.The news was shared to Rice’s Facebook page by her son, Christopher, late Saturday night.

The beloved author who wrote the memorable 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire has died.

Anne Rice has sadly passed away.

American writer Anne Rice, whose Interview With The Vampire sold more than 150 million copies, has died at the age of 80.

Naman Ramachandran Anne Rice, influential author of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80.

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist widely known for her bestselling novel “Interview with the Vampire,” died late Saturday at the age of 80.Rice died due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“In her final hours, I sat beside her hospital bed in awe of her accomplishments and her courage,” Christopher Rice wrote in the statement.Anne Rice was the author of the 1976 novel “Interview with the Vampire,” which was later adapted into

Anne Rice, the author of the popular vampire novel series ‘The Vampire Chronicles,’ died Saturday evening, her son Christopher announced on social media.This is a breaking news story. We will continue to update this page as more information becomes available.Dearest People of Page.

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is getting adapted into a TV show for AMC. This marks the second Rice series heading to adaptation at the network, as “Interview With the Vampire” will also be hitting the small screen. Based on a trilogy of supernatural novels first published in 1990, the “Mayfair Witches” series will be eight episodes, written and produced by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC has officially ordered a series based on the Anne Rice “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” novels, Variety has learned.The cabler has ordered eight episodes of the show, which is titled “Mayfair Witches.” It was originally announced that AMC had opened a writers room for the series in August under their script to series model.The show will focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches.