FOG BLOG LITERATURE LOG: NOVELIST WHO BREATHED NEW LIFE INTO VAMPIRES, ANNE RICE DIES AT 80!

Anne Rice, the vampire fiction queen who wrote 'Interview With the Vampire,' dies at 80.....Anne Rice, the trailblazing writer of popular vampire fiction widely known for her best-selling novel "Interview With the Vampire," died late Saturday at age 80.

The author died from complications of a stroke, her son Christopher Rice, himself a writer, 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 his statement.

"As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions. ... Let us take in the shared hope that Anne is now experiencing firsthand the glorious answers to the many great spiritual and cosmic questions, the quest for which defined her life and career."