Few contemporary American or British novelists have had as much cultural impact over the past four decades as Anne Rice. J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and James Patterson may have sold more books, but Rice’s creative fingerprints are everywhere, from television and film (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Let the Right One In,” “Only Lovers Left Alive”) to bestselling fiction (Stephenie Meyer’s sparkly vampire quartet, Laurell K.