SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history. --San Francisco Chronicle STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rices title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating. --The Miami Herald BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rices descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight. --The Washington Post Book World RICE SEES THINGS ON A GRAND SCALE...There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other. --The Boston Globe EROTIC...EERIE...HORRIFYING...A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans...Anne Rice is a spellbinding novelist.... LASHER quenches. --Denver Post A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD(c)