num_pages: 1038
description: Alternate cover edition located here.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. The Witching Hour could only have been written by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
language: English
title: The Witching Hour
titlecomplete: The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
characters: Tyrone Clifford McNamara, Alice Mayfair, Deirdre Mayfair, Lionel Mayfair, Rowan Mayfair, Graham Franklin, Sean Lacy, Aaron Lightner, Carlotta Mayfair, Marie Claudette Mayfair Landry, Lestan Mayfair, Augustin Mayfair, Daniel McIntyre, Stella Mayfair, Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve, Antha Mayfair, Julien Mayfair, Amanda Grady Mayfair, Barclay Mayfair, Lasher, Cortland Mayfair, Remy Mayfair, Darcy Monahan, Ellie Mayfair, Michael James Timothy Curry, Mary Beth Mayfair, Belle Mayfair, Millie Mayfair, Corrington Mayfair, Katherine Mayfair, Nancy Mayfair, Jeannette Mayfair, Angélique Mayfair, Petyr van Abel, Garland Mayfair, Sean McIntyre, Marguerite Mayfair, Suzanne Mayfair
genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Gothic, Urban Fantasy, Witches, Supernatural, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Magic, Horror
ratings_count: 115089
places: Scotland Yard, London, England, New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana
series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books