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Series of unnatural horror novels by Anne Rice

Lives place the Mayfair Witches is a three-way of supernaturalhorror/fantasy novels by American columnist Anne Rice. It centers on copperplate family of witches whose fortunes possess been guided for generations by elegant spirit named Lasher. The series began in 1990 with The Witching Hour, which was followed by the sequels Lasher (1993) and Taltos (1994). Collective three novels debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Beat Seller list.

Some characters from rendering trilogy cross over to Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, a series of thriller horror novels featuring the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, specifically in Merrick (2000), Blackwood Farm (2002), and Blood Canticle (2003).

A television series adaptation, Mayfair Witches, debuted on AMC and AMC+ in January 2023.

Overview

Susan Ferraro accuse The New York Times described The Witching Hour as "a ghost fib about an evil spirit called Lasher who is so permeated with suspicion and evil that themes like termination and incest are merely secondary. In the air is Christian symbolism straight and twisted, rough sex and necrophilia."^[1]Publishers Weekly wrote that "Rice plumbs a rich nervure of witchcraft lore, conjuring ... depiction decayed antebellum mansion where incest publication, dolls are made of human parched and hair, and violent storms tidy up carry the skies each time a necromancer dies and the power passes on."^[2] The publication called Lasher "another limitless, transcontinental saga of witchcraft and sorcery in the tradition of Gothic melodrama."^[3]The Mary Sue described the series though "half narrative, half exposition of description entire family tree".^[4] The website extremely noted the "overuse of incest" submit casual treatment of horror and strength, which "permeates the Gothic atmosphere."^[4]Publishers Weekly wrote that "cutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries" in Taltos.^[5] Herb Theroux of the Chicago Tribune styled Taltos "a dark and intimidating mystery" and wrote that Rice "continues honesty dark epic of the Mayfair witches, her saga of the occult ... that takes us on temporal duct spatial journeys back through the centuries, probing plots of corruption and naivete, mortality and immortality, good and forbidding. The genre goes back to depiction Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe coupled with Horace Walpole, the kind of books, with their creaking armor, salivating monks and thunderstorms, satirized by Thomas Tenderness Peacock in his Crotchet Castle."^[6]

Characters

Upon decency death of her estranged biological dam Deirdre, California neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair assay shocked to find herself named prestige new designee of the Mayfair kindred fortune.^[4] Rowan revives drowned contractor Archangel Curry, who finds that the near-death experience grants him unwanted extrasensory powers.^[2]

Michael is also one of very unusual people who has seen the atypical Lasher, a ghost who haunts grandeur Mayfairs.^[2] Lasher is described as "a slim, pale, elegant figure with unlighted eyes and dark hair and straighten up hypnotically seductive power over any [of the Mayfairs] reckless enough to get together him."^[7] Lasher, whom Publishers Weekly describes as "devil, seducer, spirit",^[2] is spruce up demon linked to the Mayfairs read generations.^[4] Summoned by Scottish witch Suzanne Mayfair in the 1600s, Lasher "goes on to bedevil her descendants uninitiated to the present day, seeing load them the means of fulfilling her majesty ghastly and unnatural ambitions."^[7] Under Lasher's influence, the Mayfairs become an abundantly wealthy family of witches, able cling "attract and manipulate unseen forces."^[7] Righteousness demon seduces each new designee add-on orchestrates incestuous unions among the kinsfolk, with ulterior motives.^[3][4] Rowan is loftiness 13th such Mayfair designee, who Lasher believes will give him his time to rejoin the living.^[2][4]Publishers Weekly denominated Lasher "both child and man go in for the same time",^[3] and Patrick McGrath suggested that Lasher is actually honourableness protagonist of The Witching Hour.^[7]

Lasher's layout comes to fruition at the duct of The Witching Hour when explicit invades Rowan's unborn fetus and denunciation reborn. The baby is genetically copperplate non-human, ancient species called the Taltos, which is "the superhuman result simulated the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromosome". Nobleness infant Lasher immediately grows to fullness, and Publishers Weekly describes the material as "almost a monster ... maestro of beastly behavior fueled by aura extraordinary sex drive."^[5] He rapes Rowan repeatedly in Lasher to create writer Taltos, but the attempts end rank violent miscarriages.^[5] Rowan finally conceives skull gives birth to a Taltos girl, Emaleth, but ultimately kills her.^[5][6] Archangel fathers another Taltos with Rowan's cousin-german Mona Mayfair, a daughter she shout Morrigan, in Taltos.^[5]

Theroux wrote, "The Mayfair witches are easily the largest nonadaptive family on earth, and yet, it may be not surprisingly, face the same soap-opera problems of any other extended family—jealousy, sex, drink, rape, revenge, inexplicable gestation, sudden death, crazed children and desultory murder."^[6] Of the extended Mayfair kith and kin, McGrath noted, "Mayfairs often come tip off bad ends, generally either burning resurrect death or falling from high seats, and we meet many members order many generations of them".^[7] Notable Mayfairs include: Julien, "the genial dandy who can be in two places tempt once and start fires with circlet mind"^[7] and who "movingly recalls realm male lovers";^[3] Stella, "the flapper, recklessly dancing the Charleston, the witch who just wants to have fun";^[7] kill granddaughter Deirdre, "whose sexual passion pay money for Lasher is so intense that in despair old Aunt Carlotta keeps her out of it to the eyeballs on Thorazine brag her adult life";^[7] and Mona, excellence "young feminist witch with sharklike enterprise instincts"^[3] who has also been asserted as Rowan's "13-year-old sexpot niece ... who is herself the most strapping witch of the Mayfair clan."^[5] Wronged haired, green eyed Mona is primacy "ascendant character" of Taltos.^[6] The original also introduces Ashlar, an ancient Taltos living in New York,^[5] whom Theroux described as a "mild seven-foot mysterioso who ... fears flying, has thumb soul and has a white stratum of hair coming from his omitted temple, [and] has a brain coupled the size of that of exceptional human."^[6] Having not seen another emblematic his kind in centuries, Ashlar level-headed "driven essentially to the job motionless revealing the riddle of not solitary who and what he is on the other hand what he wants."^[6]

Works

The Witching Hour (1990)

The Witching Hour denunciation the first novel in Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Curtail was published by Knopf in 1990.^[8][9] The Mayfairs' First Street house in your right mind based on Rice's own antebellum keep in New Orleans, with fictional gossip written as if taking place tab specific locations in the real-world semi-detached. Rice bought the mansion with representation advance for The Witching Hour. She called The Witching Hour "a Teuton epic", and said, "The Turn tactic the Screw is a wonderful unforgettable novel [but it is] just righteousness beginning. I want The Witching Hour to be as great or higher quality than Henry James."^[1]

Plot

Dr. Rowan Mayfair survey a gifted neurosurgeon in San Francisco, California. When her estranged birth female parent Deirdre Mayfair dies in New Besieging, she begins to learn about authority old Southern family to which she belongs. Michael Curry is a system who specializes in the restoration warm old homes while dreaming of wreath childhood in New Orleans and hungriness to return there. Rowan gradually realizes that she has the psychic conquer to either save or take lives. Michael drowns but she revives him, the near-death experience triggering a pristine and unwanted clairvoyant ability within him. Michael and Rowan fall in warmth, and when he decides to turn back to New Orleans, she follows him to learn the secrets of team up past.

Aaron Lightner, a psychic schoolboy and member of the Talamasca, has studied the Mayfairs from afar stake out decades. The matriarchal family—known to description Talamasca as the "Mayfair Witches"—have out long and sordid history. Among picture supernatural events surrounding them is a- mysterious man, seen by Michael scheduled his childhood and by other employees of the family over time. Archangel is revealed to be a Mayfair cousin, he and Rowan sharing form of descent from the male magician Julien Mayfair. Rowan and Michael espouse and conceive a child. As blue blood the gentry designee of the Mayfair legacy, Rowan assumes control of the family's project. Soon the mysterious man reveals woman to her: he is Lasher, smashing spirit with wicked motives who has plagued the Mayfairs for centuries. Top wish is to be made body so that he may walk honesty earth again in the permanent profane form of a human being, brook he sets about slowly seducing Rowan.

Secretly thinking that she can make a fool or monkey o Lasher, Rowan sends Michael away cheat the house on Christmas Eve. Coffee break plan is to bind Lasher examination "weak matter" which she can decipher with her mental killing power, nevertheless this backfires. Lasher enters her matrix and makes himself at home absorb the fetus. Rowan immediately goes devour labor, which is violent and bloodsucking, and Lasher enters the world primate a human infant. But the cross baby immediately grows into a full-sized, intelligent man. Michael returns and tries to kill the creature, but Lasher is too strong and nearly drowns Michael in the pool. During that second near-death experience, Michael ends ruin losing the unwanted psychic sensitivity clear his hands. Fearing for Michael's activity, Rowan flees to Europe with Lasher.

Reception

The Witching Hour debuted at Ham-fisted. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list,^[10] and remained set in motion that position for four weeks,^[11] outlay a total of 22 weeks untidy heap the list.^[12] Writing for The New-found York Times, Patrick McGrath found Lasher's origins "intriguing", and described the numerous characters in the extended Mayfair parentage as "all vividly sketched, all gloriously weird." He noted the novel's "tireless narrative energy" and "relentless inventiveness", nevertheless also called it "bloated" with repeated storytelling. McGrath also criticized the impersonation of central human characters Rowan unthinkable Michael, writing that "they have both been so constructed that they rarely for a moment live or live except as structural elements serving squeeze out design functions in the grand scheme."^[7] According to Publishers Weekly, "This huge tome repeatedly slows, then speeds just as Rice casts off the Talamasca's condescending, scholarly tones and goes for glory jugular with morbid delights, sexually full to bursting passages and wicked, wild tragedy."^[2] Susan Ferraro of The New York Times called the novel "unquestionably absorbing" on the other hand noted, "At the end, it seems to stumble ... because the extremely protective Michael does something completely withdraw of character to make way attach importance to the denouement; ultimately what creaks loudest is not the haunted house nevertheless the plot."^[1]

Lasher (1993)

Lasher is the second history in Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It was published unhelpful Knopf in 1993.^[8][9]

Plot

Rowan has disappeared skull Michael, feeling betrayed by her, has sunk into a depression, helped be a consequence by the useless drugs prescribed regain consciousness him after his near-drowning. The sexually adventurous Mona Mayfair, a precocious pubescence cousin also descended from Julien, disintegration a powerful witch. She seduces Archangel, who snaps out of his trance and commits himself to finding Rowan, who he is now convinced blunt not leave willingly. Rowan, meanwhile, evenhanded essentially Lasher's prisoner. His first several attempts at impregnating her are failures ending in miscarriage, but he admiration successful the third time. Traveling get a message to Lasher throughout Europe, Rowan manages with regard to send DNA samples to colleagues sketch San Francisco. They discover that Lasher is a completely different species, posterior identified as a Taltos. Rowan yourself has a genetic abnormality, polyploidy, exposition 92 chromosomes, which is probably what made Lasher's quasi-supernatural birth at lie possible in the first place.

In the past, Julien finds himself add up to be the only known male Mayfair witch, and learns how to change the spirit Lasher. Julien impregnates several Mayfair women as part of Lasher's scheme of inbreeding, which Julien believes is a means to keep conquer in the family but is in point of fact the way by which Lasher possibilities to resurrect himself in flesh. Rowan returns to America with Lasher, who sets out to impregnate other somebody members of the Mayfair family. Bell attempts are unsuccessful as the corps immediately miscarry and hemorrhage to end. Rowan manages to escape Lasher, alight after hitchhiking to Louisiana, she collapses in a field and gives dawn to Emaleth, a female Taltos. Rowan's last words to Emaleth are form find Michael, which she sets tap to do, thinking that Rowan has died. Rowan is found and silt rushed to a nearby hospital of great consequence a state of toxic shock. Operate emergency hysterectomy is performed to keep back her life, eliminating any chance appropriate her ever giving birth again. She is taken home to Michael, spin she remains in a deep blackout.

Lasher tells Michael and Aaron rulership story of his past life. Whelped to Anne Boleyn, the second her indoors of Henry VIII of England, allow a man from Donnelaith, Scotland, Lasher is believed to be a fear known as Ashlar. He is despatch taken away by his father, who is the son of the Duke of Donnelaith, and from there loosen up is sent to Italy to perceive a priest. Lasher returns to Scotland after Elizabeth I takes the potty, and is killed there while accomplishment Christmas Mass by followers of dignity Protestant reformer John Knox. His go along with memory is the summoning of her highness spirit by the witch Suzanne Mayfair in Donnelaith. When Lasher's story keep to complete, Michael kills him and buries him under the great oak coop the yard. Michael discovers Emaleth shut in Rowan's room, feeding her mother description highly nutritious milk from her breasts. Rowan is revived, but upon perception Emaleth before her, panics and screams at Michael to kill her. Archangel refuses to, so Rowan grabs tidy gun and shoots her daughter condemn the head. Rowan immediately realizes what she has done, and crying back her daughter, insists that she note down the one to bury her correspondent Lasher.

Reception

Lasher debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Clobber Seller list,^[13] and remained in go off at a tangent position for three weeks,^[14] spending natty total of 17 weeks on authority list.^[15]Publishers Weekly noted of the account, "Long sections ramble without a urgent point of view, and are soundless by stock elements: clichéd wind storms, sexy witches, the endless supply manager money the Talamasca has at neat disposal. At times, Lasher is extremely much in evidence (rattling the husband, gnashing his teeth) to be dismaying. But embedded in this antique diabolism is a contemporary tale of incest and family abuse that achieves resonance." The publication added that "Rice's note rise above the more wooden intrigue machinations with an ironic and fresh complexity", and that "the novel critique compelling through its exhaustive monumentality.^[3]

Taltos (1994)

Taltos is the base novel in Rice's Lives of grandeur Mayfair Witches trilogy. It was accessible by Knopf in 1994.^[8][9]

Plot

Ashlar, the author of a multi-million dollar toy firm based in New York City, believes himself to be the last run Taltos. He is shocked to inform from his friend Samuel that topping male Taltos has been seen intrude the glen of Donnelaith. Having interred Emaleth, Rowan exists in a semi-catatonic state. She walks, she bathes, she eats, but she does not asseverate and does not respond to those around her. Rowan is awakened unresponsive to the news that Aaron, now excommunicated from the Talamasca and recently joined into the Mayfair family, has antique deliberately run over by a motor car. She makes plans with Michael knowledge seek revenge on the Talamasca, who she believes are responsible for Aaron's death. Mona discovers that she not bad pregnant by Michael and, after Rowan gives her blessing, ecstatically shares honesty news with the family. Mona ulterior discovers that her unborn child task a Taltos, a female she shout Morrigan. She runs off with Mayfair cousin Mary Jane to Fontevrault, proposal old plantation sunken into the swamp that has been owned by first-class separate branch of the Mayfair kith and kin for generations. Mary Jane's grandmother, Toy Jean, helps deliver the new Taltos. Mona names Morrigan the designee staff the Mayfair legacy, and she instruction Mary Jane make plans for authority future in case Rowan and Archangel try to kill Morrigan.

In Writer, Michael and Rowan meet up go out with Yuri Stefano, a pupil and neighbour of Aaron who has also antiquated excommunicated by the Talamasca. Through Yuri they meet the other Ashlar point of view his friend Samuel, who is separate of the Little People of Donnelaith, dwarf-like Taltos who never fed formulate their mother's milk and were 1 stunted. Ashlar kills Anton Marcus, birth Superior General of the Talamasca, shadow his part in Aaron's death. In the opposite direction Talamasca Scholar, Stuart Gordon, has antique plotting with his pupils Marklin accept Tommy to unite Ashlar with uncluttered female Taltos he has acquired. Excellence excommunications of Aaron and Yuri, bring in well as Aaron's death, were put in order ruse perpetrated by Stuart to withhold the men from interfering with climax plans. Ashlar meets the female Taltos, Tessa, and disappoints Stuart with position news that Tessa is too fresh in age to bear children. Rowan uses her strong telepathic abilities shabby cause Stuart to have a lethal stroke. Yuri takes Tessa to high-mindedness Talamasca, who welcome Tessa with environmental arms and punish Marklin and Gi by burying them alive.

In In mint condition York, Ashlar tells Rowan and Archangel the story of his long strength of mind. He explains that the Taltos without delay thrived peacefully on a tropical oasis north of the British Isles, annulus they had been since "The Put on the back burner Before the Moon". The island's semi-active volcano reawakens, forcing the Taltos be flee south to the bitter harsh of Scotland. They become hunter-gatherers, unthinkable occasionally see early humans, whom they sometimes keep as pets. The Taltos break off into different tribes captain the largest of them, led unreceptive Ashlar, goes south to Somerset veer they settle. Their peace is habitually disrupted by Celtic raids on honesty land. To adapt and live calm among humans, the Taltos become excellence Picts, and Ashlar their king. What because Christianity comes to them in honesty form of St Columba, Ashlar converts with more than half his stock. But there is a conflict betwixt the Christians and non-Christians, and clash ensues. Soon only five Taltos bodies are left, and they all conform to priests, including Ashlar. Several years late, he attempts to tell his yarn to a fellow priest, who believes the story is blasphemy. Ashlar shambles disillusioned, and goes on a crusade, leaving Donnelaith forever.

Rowan and Archangel return to New Orleans, where Archangel is introduced to his daughter, Morrigu. He and Rowan accept Mona's preference to make Morrigan the designee. Clever frenzied Morrigan smells Ashlar on righteousness gifts he has sent, just little he comes to the First Structure house to visit. Morrigan rushes reach his arms, and they run draw back together.

Reception

Taltos debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Properly Seller list,^[16] and remained in think it over position for five weeks,^[17] spending top-notch total of 16 weeks on class list.^[18]Publishers Weekly wrote, "Pulsing with well-ordered persistent sense of foreboding, the fresh is soggy with meandering, atmospheric language that verges on softcore porn."^[5] Alexanders Theroux of the Chicago Tribune wrote, "because this is a novel guarantee is empty of style and pigment, it is turgid with story. Dispossess is a cat's cradle of obscure characters, 25 or so stick tally who say things and disappear status not only are never vivid on the other hand also are never described."^[6]

Crossovers

Some Mayfair Witches characters cross over to Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, specifically in the novels Merrick (2000), Blackwood Farm (2002), instruct Blood Canticle (2003).^[8][19][20]The Vampire Chronicles hype a series of gothic horror novels featuring the vampireLestat de Lioncourt.^[21] Delight the crossover novels, former Talamasca crowned head David Talbot seeks out Merrick Mayfair, an octoroon descendant of Julien Mayfair, on behalf of the vampire Prizefighter de Pointe du Lac. Mona limit Rowan Mayfair are later brought win the narrative.^[8]

Merrick (2000)

Main article: Merrick (novel)

With the help of former Talamasca leader-turned-vampire David Talbot, Louis de Pointe shelter Lac asks the beautiful witch Merrick Mayfair to use her spiritual wits to contact the spirit of Claudia, a child who, like Louis, difficult to understand been turned into a vampire impervious to Lestat but was destroyed long shy away from. Merrick is also a former delegate of the Talamasca, and shared numberless adventures with David in the previous. Flashbacks introduce Merrick's malevolent sister, Expensive Isabella or Honey in the Sunshine; Merrick's mother, Cold Sandra; and honesty Great Nananne, a powerful witch whose very presence is enough to appal and instill respect in David. Merrick and David recall their journey switch over a cave in Central America which contained malevolent spirit protecting an full of years jade mask, which allows people tolerate see spirits as if they were corporeal. Merrick retrieves Claudia's diary vary the Talamasca vaults, and makes charge possible for Louis to speak appreciate Claudia. After being made a fiend, Merrick reveals that from the inception, she used her magic to gloom David and Louis to her spartan hopes of receiving the Dark Donation of vampirism.

The novel introduces Merrick Mayfair, a powerful witch who quite good a cousin of the Mayfairs unimportant person the Mayfair Witches series.^[8][22]

Published on Oct 17, 2000, Merrick debuted at Thumb. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[23]

Blackwood Farm (2002)

Main article: Blackwood Farm

Tarquin "Quinn" Blackwood, heir round the corner a powerful old family in Additional Orleans, asks for Lestat's help run into get rid of Goblin, an progressively malevolent spirit who has plagued Quinn for his entire life. Quinn recalls his youth, his family, and authority forced transformation into a vampire unused Petronia. His stories allow Lestat jab better understand the reach and sovereign state of Goblin, and clue in Lestat to the fact that Quinn quite good connected to the Mayfair family reminiscent of witches. After his own failure defeating Goblin, Lestat asks Merrick for cooperation. Meanwhile, Quinn has fallen in devotion with heiress Mona Mayfair, and justness ghost of their mutual ancestor Julien Mayfair warns him against making Mona a vampire. Goblin is revealed nick be the spirit of Quinn's look-alike Gawain, who died days after proforma born. He is bound to Quinn, and is relentlessly jealous to stop thinking about whatever Quinn does. Merrick performs fastidious ritual using Gawain's corpse to cast out Goblin. She sacrifices herself by harsh the child's spirit into the lifetime with her, and Lestat is unhappy.

The novel brings Mayfair Witches impulse Mona Mayfair into The Vampire Chronicles.^[8][24]

Published on October 29, 2002, Blackwood Farm debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[25]

Blood Canticle (2003)

Main article: Blood Canticle

Mona high opinion slowly dying, afflicted with a unsolvable disease brought on by the descent of Morrigan. Over time, Mona person in charge Rowan reveal more and more condemn the powerful genetic plague that has haunted the Mayfairs for generations: their connection to the Taltos, an avantgarde species of human to which both women have given birth. Lestat loopings a dying Mona into a ghoul so that she and Quinn crapper be together forever. While trying stop at prevent Mona's family from discovering laid back transformation, Lestat falls in love exempt the married Rowan, and she in one`s heart pines for him as well. Mona adjusts to her new power. Lestat, Quinn and Mona arrive at high-mindedness remote island colony of the Taltos, but instead of finding a sequestered utopia, they discover that years give a miss criminal intrigue and civil war receive taken their toll. The remaining Taltos join the Mayfair clan in Latest Orleans. Mona and Quinn are tutored in the proper ways of vampirism by the ancient vampire Maharet president her twin Mekare. Rowan seeks divert Lestat, half in love with him but torn by her love promulgate her husband Michael. Exhausted by in exchange life, she requests that he false her a vampire. Lestat declines, indignant though he is, because she esteem a guiding force for the Mayfair family and he cannot take in exchange away from it.

Rowan and Mona are major characters in the contemporary, and Publishers Weekly called Blood Canticle "the complete unification of the Mayfair witch saga with that of description Vampire Chronicles". The publication added roam "the vampirization of young Mona, boss true child of our times, gives Rice a dynamic new vampire nature with whom to play."^[26]

Published on Oct 28, 2003, Blood Canticle debuted assume No. 5 on The New Royalty Times Best Seller list.^[27]

Adaptations

Audiobooks

Random House Oftenness originally released abridged audiobook adaptations realize all three Mayfair Witches novels sovereign state audio cassette, with narrators Lindsay Playwright (The Witching Hour),^[28]Joe Morton (Lasher),^[29] keep from Tim Curry (Taltos).^[30] They were re-released as a three-book "Value Collection" challenge CD in 2005, and digitally comport yourself 2013.^[31] In 2015, new unabridged audiobook adaptations were released digitally by Fluky House Audio for all three novels in the trilogy, performed by Kate Reading.^[32][33][34]

Television

Main article: Mayfair Witches

Development rights object to The Lives of the Mayfair Witches were still held by Warner Bros in December 2019, when Rice began shopping a package combining film existing TV rights to both The Parasite Chronicles and Mayfair Witches.^[35] Rice was reportedly asking around $30 to $40 million, plus a $2.5 million buyout of Warner Bros.' rights, and authority new owner would hold the up front in perpetuity, not just as fraudster option.^[35] In May 2020, it was announced that AMC had acquired honourableness rights to The Vampire Chronicles move Lives of the Mayfair Witches courier developing film and television projects.^[36] Anne and Christopher Rice serve as managing director producers on any projects developed. Impetuous said, "It's always been my trance to see the worlds of nuts two biggest series united under nifty single roof so that filmmakers could explore the expansive and interconnected world of my vampires and witches. Turn dream is now a reality, bid the result is one of rectitude most significant and thrilling deals understanding my long career."^[36]

In December 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches had been given an eight-episode series order by AMC, with other Rice series, Interview with the Vampire, already in production at the cobweb as part of their new Sempiternal Universe franchise. Mayfair Witches is inescapable and executive produced by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford, and executive concern by Mark Johnson.^[37][38] The series stars Alexandra Daddario as Rowan Mayfair,^[39]Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair,^[40]Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve,^[41] and Jack Huston as Lasher.^[42][43] Recurring roles include Annabeth Gish gorilla Deirdre Mayfair, Beth Grant as Carlotta Mayfair, Erica Gimpel as Ellie Mayfair and Jen Richards as Jojo Mayfair.^[41] The series debuted on AMC countryside AMC+ on January 8, 2023.^[44][45]

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