Launched in June 2008, the Parlor has grown to include several pages with a wide range of topics. All have appeared in Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches series in one way or another. This was one of Anne Rice's literary gifts--the ability to bring together a number of ideas, details, people, places, history and preternatural beings and make them all work together to tell a story.

In the wake of Anne's passing, the Parlor has been rededicated to her memory and to the preservation of her literary legacy. The Parlor is large, and there is a lot to see! All pages have the main menu at the top. Each item is also a category of pages, and you can access other pages of the Parlor by selecting a topic and choosing a page from the dropdown menu on the far left.

Not exactly how I wanted it, no (it's a webhosting thing). In the dropdown menu of this Mayfair Parlor category, there are pages that will help you navigate your way through the Parlor. Below are some of the highlights of the Parlor's content, and a few obligatory notes below them. Please stay a while, explore and have fun!

The above graphic by Eve Hall, used as the cover of one edition of Interview With the Vampire, is one that I thought could use a bit of animation. So, the candles flicker!

An exploration of literary, musical, artistic and dramatic influences in the Mayfair Witches books;

A "tour" of the Mayfair house at 1239 First Street, including photographs and blueprints;

Explorations of the supernatural worlds of Anne Rice, including witches, ghosts and vampires;

An exploration of Mayfair religion, myths and legends, including a page on Merrick Mayfair;

Overview of all of the legacy Mayfair Witches, with commentary on additional characters in the books;

A geography of all the places lived in or visited by the Mayfairs, including maps and links to informative pages;

An early script written by Anne Rice for the television movie "The Witching Hour" (used here with the good graces of Anne Rice herself);

A survey of the erotic and religious writing of Anne Rice, and much, much more.

Since it is and always has been a goal of the Parlor to be a reliable source of information for fans of the Mayfair Witches, you might see another new goody show up here and there. Footnotes.

There are different ways to cite sources. Given the size of the website, footnotes would be helpful throughout. The Parlor does have a sources and bibliography page, and it is staying. Adding footnotes to pages where there is a lot of text in order to cite sources will be much more useful.

I've begun by adding the first footnote on the Belle Grove page of the Parlor. It's there because first, I have to make sure it will even work. And second, I hope to make it easier for you to compare the novels with the AMC series. One thing I see a lot of, besides the differences between the novels and the series, is the fact that the length of The Witching Hour can be intimidating, perhaps? More specifically, the novel is a very detailed, very rich and full novel with a timeline that spans centuries. In addition to helping Parlor guests navigate the page to screen comparisons, adding more precise references to the precise pages in the novels where something in particular appears will, I hope, help readers and even encourage others to read the novels from cover to cover.

Over time, you will see footnotes begin to appear across the Parlor. Some pages of the Parlor have already had footnotes added. Please take a moment to see if you can find the footnote I added to this page as an example.

I'd also like to take a moment to express my deepest sympathies on the death of Pope Francis yesterday. The Catholic Church is quite prominent in the Mayfair Witches novels, and Anne Rice herself was Catholic.

Over Easter weekend, several on Facebook shared stunning photographs they'd taken of St. Mary's Assumption and St. Alphonsus in New Orleans. Both appeared in the novels.¹ New Orleans has had an extremely eventful year so far, which did NOT begin well. And now, the Pope has passed away the day after Easter.

Below is a NightCafe creation of mine from several hours ago, a cameo habille brooch of St. Mary...

As Interview With the Vampire fans await Season 3 due in 2026, we also await this interesting new series based upon the mysterious and very thorough Order that appears throughout many of Anne Rice's novels, the Talamasca. The more I see, the more curious I'm becoming. In fact, it does seem to be generating interest.

We are starting to see more about the series on AMC/Immortal Universe's social media, like this incredible image below from Facebook:

Soon on AMC and AMC+
Image: AMC/Immortal Universe

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