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The Witching Hour (Lives of Mayfair Witches) by Anne Rice; Edward Valauskas Collection of Dinosauriana is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Amazon.com ReviewIn this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. From Publishers Weekly"We watch and we are always here" is the motto of the Talamasca, a saintly group with extrasensory powers which has for centuries chronicled the lives of the Mayfairs--a dynasty of witches that brought down a shower of flames in 17th-century Scotland, fled to the plantations of Haiti and on to the New World, where they settled in the haunted city of New Orleans. Rice ( The Queen of the Damned ) plumbs a rich vein of witchcraft lore, conjuring in her overheated, florid prose the decayed antebellum mansion where incest rules, dolls are made of human bone and hair, and violent storms sweep the skies each time a witch dies and the power passes on. Newly annointed is Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant California neurosurgeon kept in ignorance of her heritage by her adoptive parents. She returns to the fold after bringing back Michael Curry from the dead; he, too, has unwanted extrasenso
Who reads The Witching Hour (Lives of Mayfair Witches)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anne Rice; Edward Valauskas Collection of Dinosauriana
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345367891
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Other Fantasy Fiction Categories
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (3,395 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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