Mayfair Witches
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A companion register ordering Anne Rice’s interwoven cosmos two ways: by internal chronology, from ancient Egypt to the millennial confluence of the vampires, witches, and Taltos; and by the order of publication, 1976 to 2018. The Talamasca threads throughout, and three crossover novels mark where the twin sagas formally converge.
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Anne Rice’s vampire and Mayfair witch sagas are twin dynasties drawn from one soil: Catholic, decaying New Orleans. Both are genealogies of cursed blood — the made undead, the born witch-blooded — joined by a shared city, a watching scholarly order, and a lifelong meditation on grief, inheritance, and the Southern past.
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“WHAT CAN I CONFESS? I’M ASHLAR. I’M A TALTOS. It’s centuries since I’ve seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I’ve heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I touched my own flesh…
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From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers–readers by the hundreds of thousands–have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once…
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From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches–a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and…
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Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents…
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In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft. At…