Anne Rice wrote gothic and supernatural fiction, most famously The Vampire Chronicles. Interview with the Vampire presents the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac as he recounts his transformation into a vampire and his long, difficult relationship with Lestat, while later books such as The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned expand the history and mythology of Rice's vampires across different periods and countries. She also wrote the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, centred on a New Orleans family connected to a supernatural entity. Rice's novels are usually slower and more introspective than action-led horror, giving substantial space to desire, immortality, religion, identity and elaborate settings. Her work sits between gothic fiction, vampire fiction and dark fantasy, with related readerships for writers such as Poppy Z. Brite and Tanith Lee. Read more Less