The world-renowned novelist changed the game for gothic literature.
She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died."
“She summoned the feelings of an age long before we knew what they were.
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As a writer, she was decades ahead of her time.
As a longtime friend, she loved and was beloved by everyone who worked with her at this house.
The world will miss her and continue to know her again and again through the lives she imagined.”
In a 2009 interview, EW asked Rice what made her vision of vampires unique.
“Their glamour,” she said.
“I thought to myself, ‘Why should this supernatural being be repulsive?
Why should he be feral like Dracula?
What if he was more like a dark angel?'”
The literary world has lost one of its immortals.
