Lives of the Mayfair Witches · Book 1

The Witching Hour

by Anne Rice

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
1216
ISBN-13
9781804952849
Type
novel

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About this book

The Witching Hour opened the trilogy in 1990 at a sprawling 1,216 pages, centering neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Mayfair -- raised far from the family estate and unaware she's the latest in the Mayfair witches' bloodline -- as the spirit Lasher reveals what he wants from her.

Its place in Lives of the Mayfair Witches

The Witching Hour is book 1 in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. It is followed by Lasher. See the full Lives of the Mayfair Witches reading order.

Lives of the Mayfair Witches is Anne Rice's other major gothic saga, a doorstop trilogy tracing thirteen generations of a wealthy, cursed New Orleans family bound to Lasher, a beautiful and ancient spirit who has attached himself to the Mayfair women and shaped their fortunes -- and their deaths -- for three hundred years. The Witching Hour (1990) centers on Dr. Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon raised far from the family estate who doesn't yet know she's the latest in the witches' bloodline, and unfolds as both a…

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