On the veranda of a great New Orleans house now faded a mute & fragile woman sits rocking. & the witching hour begins... Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling & the creation of legend Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches
- a family given to poetry & incest to murder & philosophy a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful dangerous & seductive being. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft & the occult across four centuries by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.