![]() That would be what she would want."Īnd Rice followed her suggestion, going on to craft 1,056 pages that led readers through a highly detailed account of generations of witches that felt more like a biography than a novel. "Just asked what she expected in a witchcraft novel, historical or contemporary witchcraft stuff (expected from the author of 'Interview with the Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat')," Rice wrote. ![]() Prior to making any serious headway into the first draft of "The Witching Hour," the first book in the series published in 1990, Rice makes note in one particular journal of a conversation she had with a friend in which she gauged what fans of her previous series, " The Vampire Chronicles," would hope to read in a new series about an entirely different set of creatures of the night. ![]() ![]() In volumes of Anne Rice's journals, archived in a collection held in the care of Tulane University in New Orleans since her death in 2021, she details the very early workings of what would become one of her most notable series of books, "Lives of the Mayfair Witches." ![]()
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