Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Thriller. HTML:In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative � her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches � to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelg�nger, �Goblin,� a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can�t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelg�nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.

As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn�s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th...… (more)