Lives of the Mayfair Witches: The Witching Hour

On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins... 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 give 4n to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, "The Witching Hour" could only have been written by the spellbinding bestselling author of "The Vampire Chronicles".

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter in an Irish Catholic family. Her first novel, "Interview with the Vampire", became a cult best-seller, as did her two subsequent books in "The Vampire Chronicles", "The Vampire Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned". She also writes erotica under two pseudonyms. Anne Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son.