Anne Rice: Taltos [1995] paperback

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD

‘[W]hen I found Rice’s work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (…) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant’ Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

‘[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic’ Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon

The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos – the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.

Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, towards their ultimate fate…