The Witching Hour

Trade Paperback, 965 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 1991 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-36789-1
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OCLC Number:
24564522

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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. source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/153717/the-witching-hour-by-anne-rice/

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A story that could have been told in a quarter the length. Well written enough that when I picked up the book I felt like I was entering another world. But it’s one I skim read through, nothing to be gained from circular flowery writing, pages and pages of characters explaining stuff to eachother.
Necrophilia and rape isn’t really my jam either.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Witchcraft -- Fiction