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  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099471424
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1216
  • RRP: $32.99

The Witching Hour



'Morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy' - Publishers Weekly

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

'[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon

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.

  • Published: 3 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099471424
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1216
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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Praise for The Witching Hour

Compelling... Sensuous... Engrossing... Rich

Wall Street Journal

Vintage Rice - lush prose, dense atmosphere, steamy sex, gothic tension

San Francisco Chronicle

Morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy

Publishers Weekly