Anne Rice · novel-series
Lives of the Mayfair Witches books in order
A trilogy about the Mayfair family, its hereditary powers, and the entity known as Lasher.
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- 1 The Witching Hour
Book 1 · novel · 1990
Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon with special powers and the descendant of a dynasty of witches, is drawn to Michael Curry, gifted with strange powers after a near-fatal accident, as they seek to unlock the secret of their talents
- 2 Lasher
Book 2 · novel · 1993
Lasher, charismatic, seductive daemon of Anne Rice's mesmerizing novel The Witching Hour, returns to New Orleans and to the powerful Mayfair family. Yearning to be made flesh, he chooses as his unwilling accomplice the gifted Rowan…
- 3 Taltos
Book 3 · novel · 1994
When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For…


