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Taltos
  • Published: 1 December 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099436812
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99

Taltos

Lives of the Mayfair Witches



The third hypnotic book in her epic story of the Mayfair witches, following The Witching Hour and Lasher

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

'[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon

The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.

Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, towards their ultimate fate...

  • Published: 1 December 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099436812
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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Praise for Taltos

If you surrender and go with her, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantments, as if in a voluptuous dream

Boston Globe

Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates a myth

Washington Post Book World

Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere... She makes us believe everything she sees

New York Times Book Review