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  • Published: 29 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099548164
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $29.99
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Merrick

The Vampire Chronicles 7




The 7th book in the Vampire Chronicles. Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo come together in this vivid, exotic and terrifying novel

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 7th book in the Vampire Chronicles. Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo come together in this vivid, exotic and terrifying novel

Louis is a vampire tortured by guilt. His status as a killer has left him conflicted for much of his immortal life, but after the murder of Claudia, his beloved child vampire, he spirals into a state of depression. And in a moment of desperation he decides to bring her back with the help of the beautiful witch Merrick.

To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use black magic to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be. But in the dark unknown of the underworld there are other spirits who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to the edge of peril.

  • Published: 29 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099548164
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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Praise for Merrick

Rice knows what her readers want - scene after scene of magic and conjuring, with a liberal sprinkling of horror and eroticism

Times Literary Supplement

Rice writes with a captivating elegance and a mordant wit. She can create fear in the dark but her most dangerous gift is that the shivers sent down the spine are most sensual

Literary Review

Rice's witches are sensual glamorous beings, bisexual and hedonistic, whose power is a knife that cuts both ways

GQ

Rice's writing is wonderfully imaginative and as creepily splendid as a hot-house orchid

Sunday Times

Sensuous... A steaming brew of vampires and witches

Los Angeles Tmes