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.