Merrick

The Vampire Chronicles #7

by Anne Rice

In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft.

At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reigned in the shadowy world where African and French--the dark and the white--intermingled. Her ancestors are the great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she inherits the power and the magical knowledge of a Circe.

Into this exotic realm comes David Talbot--hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost-mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick's haunting tale--a tale that takes us from the New Orleans of past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, from the Maya ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet explored.

Anne Rice's richly told novel weaves an irresistible story of two worlds: the witches' world and the vampires' world, where magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.

Genres: Horror, Vampires, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Witches

370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 17, 2000

About the author

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) was a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematic focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

Anne Rice passed on December 11, 2021 due to complications from a stroke. She was eighty years old at the time of her death.

She uses the pseudonym Anne Rampling for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and A.N. Roquelaure for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.

Reviews

[Marie]

Ich mag David nicht

[Claudia]

Eigentlich ein Wertungsproblem, denn wenn ich es durch ein Buch durchschaffe, muss es mindestens mittelmaessig sein, also drei Sterne haben. Das Buch hab ich beendet, aber meine Notizen aus Florileg 2 besagen:
Meine Guete, das Leid mit Anne Rice's Geschoepfen ist immer dasselbe: Sie wollen sterben und koennens nicht, wollen nicht unbedingt toeten, und tuns trotzdem, ueber der ganzen dunklen Welt haengt eine Moralkeule christlicher Auspraegung. Dabei duerfte es sich langsam auch bei Vampiren herumgesprochen haben, dass der Zweck die Mittel heiligt, aber die hier heulen um verschuettete Milch.

[Lou]

Liebe es so sehr, warum musste die Geschichte ein Ende finden

[Katherina]

Ich glaube, ich habe noch ein Lieblingsbuch <3