Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
by By Rice, Anne
Category: Fiction , Occult & Supernatural

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive  strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches --  to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to  Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched  gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn  Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger,  “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents him  from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully  his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric  and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in  time, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient  Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the  hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar  Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of  loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice  at her mesmerizing best.