num_pages: 965
description: On the veranda 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 given 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, by the spellbinding, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
language: English
title: The Witching Hour
titlecomplete: The Witching Hour (v. 1)
characters: Antha Mayfair, Darcy Monahan, Lestan Mayfair, Amanda Grady Mayfair, Julien Mayfair, Tyrone Clifford McNamara, Petyr van Abel, Garland Mayfair, Carlotta Mayfair, Katherine Mayfair, Lionel Mayfair, Millie Mayfair, Augustin Mayfair, Barclay Mayfair, Cortland Mayfair, Nancy Mayfair, Sean Lacy, Stella Mayfair, Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve, Aaron Lightner, Suzanne Mayfair, Lasher, Jeannette Mayfair, Ellie Mayfair, Graham Franklin, Alice Mayfair, Sean McIntyre, Corrington Mayfair, Angélique Mayfair, Marguerite Mayfair, Daniel McIntyre, Remy Mayfair, Belle Mayfair, Rowan Mayfair, Michael James Timothy Curry, Deirdre Mayfair, Marie Claudette Mayfair Landry, Mary Beth Mayfair
genres: Fiction, Magic, Gothic, Witches, Horror, Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy
ratings_count: 115108
places: Louisiana, Scotland Yard, London, England, New Orleans, Louisiana
series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel
publisher: Chatto & Windus Ltd