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Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour                                              Comics Lot
Featuring an adaptation of Anne Rice’s witch saga.  Awesome!!
Writers: Duncan Eagleson, Faye Perozich & Terry Collins
Artists: Duncan Eagleson & Paul Carrick
Letterers: Mike Sagara & Vickie Williams
Editor: Paul Davis
Covers #1,2,3 by: John Bolton
Cover #4 by: Blurry Pendant Photograph
Cover #5 by: Paul Davis & Demaio Graphics

Lives of the Mayfair Witches is a trilogy of Gothic supernatural horror/fantasy novels by American novelist Anne Rice. It centers on a family of witches whose fortunes have been guided for generations by a spirit named Lasher. The series began in 1990 with The Witching Hour, which was followed by the sequels Lasher (1993) and Taltos (1994). All three novels debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Horror novelist Anne Rice was made famous by her Vampire Lestat novels including Interview With the Vampire and Queen of the Damned. Her grasp of horror goes beyond mere vampires, however, as shown in this adaptation of her novel, The Witching Hour.

The lushly painted story centers around an old antebellum mansion in New Orleans. Within that house, three maiden aunts cared for a strangely quiet girl named Deirdre. Deirdre sat nearly catatonic on the porch, never speaking to anyone, although a succession of nurses had quit citing vague “attacks.” She had a regimen of thorazine injections that would have killed someone unaccustomed to the drugs, and her aunts seemed content to leave her that way. Her only visitor was a strange man who seemed to disappear into the mist moments after he was seen. That man was the devil. The aunts were witches. Deirdre was the chosen one. And this…is the Witching Hour.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full The Witching Hour 1990 Novel Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
Dr. Rowan Mayfair is a gifted neurosurgeon in San Francisco, California. When her estranged birth mother Deirdre Mayfair dies in New Orleans, she begins to learn about the old Southern family to which she belongs. Michael Curry is a contractor who specializes in the restoration of old homes while dreaming of his childhood in New Orleans and yearning to return there. Rowan gradually realizes that she has the psychic power to either save or take lives. Michael drowns but she revives him, the near-death experience triggering a new and unwanted clairvoyant ability within him. Michael and Rowan fall in love, and when he decides to return to New Orleans, she follows him to learn the secrets of her past.

Aaron Lightner, a psychic scholar and member of the Talamasca, has studied the Mayfairs from afar for decades. The matriarchal family—known to the Talamasca as the “Mayfair Witches”—have a long and sordid history. Among the supernatural events surrounding them is a mysterious man, seen by Michael in his childhood and by other members of the family over time. Michael is revealed to be a Mayfair cousin, he and Rowan sharing lines of descent from the male witch Julien Mayfair. Rowan and Michael marry and conceive a child. As the designee of the Mayfair legacy, Rowan assumes control of the family’s affairs. Soon the mysterious man reveals himself to her: he is Lasher, a spirit with wicked motives who has plagued the Mayfairs for centuries. His wish is to be made flesh so that he may walk the earth again in the permanent physical form of a human being, and he sets about slowly seducing Rowan.

Secretly thinking that she can outwit Lasher, Rowan sends Michael away from the house on Christmas Eve. Her plan is to bind Lasher to “weak matter” which she can destroy with her mental killing power, but this backfires. Lasher enters her womb and makes himself at home in the fetus. Rowan immediately goes into labor, which is violent and bloody, and Lasher enters the world as a human infant. But the hybrid baby immediately grows into a full-sized, intelligent man. Michael returns and tries to kill the creature, but Lasher is too strong and nearly drowns Michael in the pool. During this second near-death experience, Michael ends up losing the unwanted psychic sensitivity in his hands. Fearing for Michael’s life, Rowan flees to Europe with Lasher.

Collectible Entertainment comment: Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour (1992 – 1996) is an ill-fated title that was originally to have run for thirteen issues instead of just the five that were published and is therefore an incomplete story…. Nonetheless, Anne Rice’s ideas and rich concepts accompanied by both John Bolton’s cover art and gorgeous, interior painting still makes this a worthwhile addition to any Anne Rice enthusiast’s collection. Recommended for any Supernatural and/or Witch enthusiast. It’s good stuff.

Comics Lot contains: Anne Frank’s The Witching Hour (1992 – 1996) Issues #1-5.  Millennium Publications

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to insure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Millennium Publications
Publication Date: 1992 – 1996
Format per comic: FC, 36 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.75″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4,5 are in Very Good to Fine condition. (significant spine stress on some issues) Overall… Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Anne Rice, Supernatural and/or Witch collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.   

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