The story of the titular Mayfair family spans centuries of history and crosses continents, with heaps of betrayal, murder, incest, possession, suicide, and sexual assault along the way. That’s likely much less true when it comes to Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, a sprawling and often completely unhinged tale of a powerful New Orleans family of deeply dysfunctional magic users that also includes everything from ghosts, demons, and god-like immortals, to a secret society of supernatural investigators who don’t do a terribly great job of staying distanced from the beings they’re meant to be observing. Whether or not you’ve actually read Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books, you’ve probably at least heard of her decadent, violent tale of the undead (or seen the 1994 feature film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire or watched AMC’s fantastic television version from last year).
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