Rice is one of the most important writers of vampire fiction.
The impact her novel Interview with the Vampire had is indisputable. But Rice's novel gripped readers and exerted a phenomenal influence over vampire literature and film for the 1980s and 1990s. Much of Rice's other work never lived up to that first novel. Rice is not a really gifted writer. Take away the scene setting and rapturous descriptions and there's often a pathetic little skeleton beneath - no real emotional depth or anything to make you think.