The Witching Hour
core novel 1990 Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.09 (126,919 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 1216 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345367891 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Witching Hour is Anne Rice's 1990 novel, the first in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon who has grown up unaware that she descends from an ancient line of witches, learns of her estranged mother's death and discovers she has inherited a vast family fortune. After rescuing and reviving a drowned contractor named Michael Curry off the California coast, an act that leaves him with unexplained psychic abilities, Rowan begins uncovering the history of her family, including its long relationship with the Talamasca, a secretive scholarly order that has studied the Mayfairs for generations.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
- Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anne Rice
Notes
- From the series record (Lives of the Mayfair Witches): Core Canon = the original trilogy (1990-1994) centered on the Mayfair family.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Lives of the Mayfair Witches: position 1 of 3: next Lasher (1993)
Sources
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