Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Merrick, by Anne Rice *First Edition ISBN: 0679454489 Pages: 307 Published: 2000 In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chrinicles 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, unconquer- able 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 knowl- edge of a Circe. Into this exotic realm comes David Tal- bot-hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost- mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick's haunt- ing 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 irre- sistible story of two worlds: the witches' world and the vampires' world, where magical pow- ers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.