Neil Genzlinger writes: “Anne Rice, the Gothic novelist best known for Interview With the Vampire, the 1976 book that in 1994 became a popular film, died on Saturday at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 80. Interview With the Vampire became a best seller, and Ms. Rice found herself with a considerable fan base, which she proceeded to entertain with a series of follow-up novels that became known collectively as the Vampire Chronicles. The books, more than a dozen in all, are widely credited with fueling a revival of interest in all things vampiric, which has been reflected on the big and small screens as well as onstage ever since. But Ms. Rice, who wrote dozens of books in all, was not a one-subject novelist.”