I’m not saying the book shouldn’t be read, just that those pages may be very difficult for anyone with those life experiences.

At the very least, be prepared that the ending may be triggering. A trigger warning for some upsetting contentīefore going any further I would like to issue a trigger warning for the book: Anyone who has had a traumatic birthing experience or lost a baby may want to skip the beginning of chapter fifty-one. I thought it would be nice to return to the source before it hits so without further ado, let’s explore Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour. Interview with the Vampire has enjoyed great success as a series, with a second season already in development, and now AMC is preparing to drop their interpretation of Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, Mayfair Witches on January 8th. And with today’s emphasis on “universes,” it is no surprise that AMC has picked up Rice’s ready-made world and run with it. It really is quite incredible what she built. Her vampires, witches, wolves, mummies, and more, all live in the same world even if the stories only tangentially touch or are connected by small elements.

A rich universe from Anne Rice’s mindĭon’t quote me on this, but Anne Rice may have been the originator of the “universe” that every franchise seems to be striving for today. Lasher has motives and plans of his own and in reality, instead of serving the Mayfair witches, they may be serving him.

But his words and his actions don’t always match up. In The Witching Hour (Lives of Mayfair Witches book 1) we learn the story of Lasher and his obsession with the Mayfair witches.įrom the first, Suzanne, to the current, Rowan, Lasher claims that he exists only to serve his witches. And so began the Mayfair line of witches. Before she called to it, it didn’t know that it was, and after she called to it, it existed to serve her… or so it says. Over three hundred years ago a young woman with special healing powers called out to the night and was heard by something.

The witching hour books in order