| The Witching Hour Contributor(s): Rice, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345367898 ISBN-13: 9780345367891 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1991 Annotation: "[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.. Moving in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91091905 |
| Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches |
| Physical Information: 1.66" H x 6.1" W x 9.23" (2.28 lbs) 976 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A] huge and sprawling tale of horror. --The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women. Moving in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in. |