Question: Which work of vampire literature was adapted into a film in 1994?
Context: Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.  She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, "The Vampire Chronicles", revolving around the central character of Lestat.  Books from "The Vampire Chronicles" were the subject of two film adaptations, "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994, and "Queen of the Damned" in 2002. In the role-playing game "" by White Wolf Game Studio, vampire characters belong to one of five fictional clans, each of which is representative of an archetype in vampire literature.  It is assumed that each clan descended from a single progenitor, who passed to each of his descendants, or childer, his unique gifts and flaws. Lenore, sometimes translated as Leonora, Leonore or Ellenore, is a poem written by German author Gottfried August Bürger in 1773, and published in 1774 in the Göttinger Musenalmanach.  Lenore is generally characterised as being part of the 18th century Gothic ballads, and although the character that returns from its grave in the poem is not considered to be a vampire, the poem has been very influential on vampire literature.  William Taylor, who published the first English translation of the ballad, would later claim that "no German poem has been so repeatedly translated into English as Ellenore". Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (born December 18, 1948 in Reinbek, Germany) is the author of a number of fantasy books for children.  Her most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is "The Little Vampire" series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages.  Sommer-Bodenburg states that her "vampire is not a bloodthirsty monster, however, but an affectionate little vampire with fears and foibles who will perhaps help free children of their own fears."  The novel, written in 1979, spawned a series of books, and the plot has been adapted to theatre, radio, cinema, and television.  A Canadian-German TV series was released in 1986 and a film version, directed by Uli Edel was released in 2000. Carroll Borland (February 25, 1914 – February 3, 1994), better known by the stage-spelling Carol Borland, was an American professor, writer, and actress.  She is best known for having portrayed Luna, the daughter of Bela Lugosi's character, Count Mora, in "Mark of the Vampire", and for creating the iconic look of the female vampire with her waist-length dark hair and Adrian-designed shroud in this film.  The visual designs of both the character of Lily Munster in the television series The Munsters and the female vampire in "Plan 9 from Outer Space" were based on her striking appearance.  She was accused of wearing the "wiggiest wig in Hollywood," but claimed that the waist-length hair was her own.  Her character does not speak through much of the film, but walks in a trance-like state until the end, when it is revealed that she and Lugosi are both actors who pretended to be vampires in order to catch a murderer.  She was born in San Francisco, California.  She was a drama student at UC Berkeley at the time she took the role.  She had previously appeared in a stage production of "Dracula" with Lugosi, in a minor role as one of his victims. Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.  The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819), which was inspired by the life and legend of Lord Byron.  Later influential works include the penny dreadful "Varney the Vampire" (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, "Carmilla" (1872) and the masterpiece of the genre: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897).  Some authors created a more "sympathetic vampire", with "Varney" being the first example, and in 1986 by Anne Rice in "Interview with the Vampire". Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in vampire literature and affiliated with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA). Interview with the Vampire is a debut gothic horror and vampire novel by American author Anne Rice, published in 1976.  Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.  Rice composed the novel shortly after the death of her young daughter Michelle, who served as an inspiration for the child-vampire character Claudia.  Though initially the subject of mixed critical reception, the book was followed by a large number of widely popular sequels, collectively known as "The Vampire Chronicles".  A film adaptation was released in 1994, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, and the novel has been adapted as a comic three times. Robert Eighteen-Bisang is a Canadian author and scholar, who is one of the world's foremost authorities on vampire literature and mythology. Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.  The film focuses on Lestat (Cruise) and Louis (Pitt), beginning with Louis's transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791.  The film chronicles their time together, and their turning of a ten-year-old girl, Claudia, into a vampire.  The narrative is framed by a present-day interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter.  The supporting cast features Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas and Stephen Rea.
Answer: Interview with the Vampire