Interview With The Vampire author Anne Rice dies at 80

Gothic novelist Anne Rice has died at the age of 80 of complications from a stroke (Dima Gavrysh/AP)

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist widely known for her bestselling novel Interview With The Vampire, has died at the age of 80.

She died late on Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son, Christopher Rice, announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.