num_pages: 436
description: The story of Marie Laveau, the character featured on American Horror Story: Coven.New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an undercurrent of secret power. The source of this power is the voodoo religion, and its queen is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike.
language: English
title: Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
titlecomplete: Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
genres: Historical, African American, Religion, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches
ratings_count: 1158
places: Louisiana
series: The Marie Laveau Mystery
publisher: Picador