The Witching Hour
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 1216
- ISBN-13
- 9781804952849
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about The Witching Hour
Anne Rice wrote The Witching Hour, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1990. The book has 1216 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781804952849 to find the main one.
The Witching Hour is book 1 of 3 in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Anne Rice writes The Vampire Chronicles, The Sleeping Beauty Quartet and Ramses the Damned as separate series. Those series sit on our gothic horror and erotic romance shelves. Meanwhile, Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris is the latest published Anne Rice book on file, from 1 February 2022.
About Anne Rice
Anne Rice was an American author who reinvented vampire fiction with Interview with the Vampire (1976), told from the perspective of the tormented, guilt-ridden vampire Louis rather than a human observer, and launched with it the Vampire Chronicles, the series that made Rice one of gothic horror's most influential modern voices. See every Anne Rice book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804952849