It is connected to established character Marius. Vittorio is a stand-alone novel with no connections to other vampires from the Chronicles but still a part of the same universe. In 1998 Anne started a new series called New Tales of the Vampires which was short-lived and includes two novels: Pandora, published same year but prior to Armand (#6), and Vittorio (1999) published immediately after Armand. If you stop there at least read Vittorio before calling it quits. And I also recommend reading Prince Lestat (Chronicle 11, 2014, see below) before deciding whether to move on and read the rest of the books. I strongly recommend reading The Witching Hour (1990, see below) before Memnoch or at worst immediately after. Updated to incorporate Anne’s other novels, written during her husband Stan’s life.Ī breakdown of how the books tie together:ġst Sequence, Books 1-5 (considered The Vampire Chronicles proper for many years.)Īt this point stop and get your bearings.

A lot of people ask me for my recommended reading order for the Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel.I figured it would be helpful to post this separately (instead of just a response as I previously posted). Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery-aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches-finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and-in passionate alliance-set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Anne Rice offers more than just a story she creates myth.”- The Washington Post Book World

From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles-the inspiration for the hit television series!.

The witching hour series in order