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.

A few days ago, I was browsing through the video clips shared on the official Facebook page for AMC's Mayfair Witches, when I came across a video. A Yule log for the Winter Solstice...

I didn't have to look on the Parlor's own YouTube channel to remember one 20-minute video I made and uploaded about a year earlier. This new video, which I've added to the Season 2 playlist on the Parlor's YouTube channel, is an hour-long ASMR ambience-type video like mine (mine is shorter in duration), but of the fireplace in the Mayfair house of the show. It's really beautiful, actually!

As for my 3D model used in that video, I've added two new exported images of the Mayfair dining room to YouTube, Facebook and the Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches page (with a few other new images). They show a basic St. Patrick's Day spread. Since the model is huge, I have to keep the spread simple (rats), but managed a traditional Irish stew, cabbage something or other, bread, potatoes, Shamrock cookies and even a silver soup tureen in the background on the butler's pantry counter. And yes, beer.

I meant to do this a year ago, but technical difficulties that had better stay solved now caused problems. So, a day late, but here. And I hope I can get the garden model to stop crashing because Easter's coming.

Previously...

So far, it's unknown if Mayfair Witches will be renewed for Season 3. Fans of the show hope there will be more, and there are, no doubt, those who are NOT fans who hope the series will end with the Season 2 finale.

In the last week, some important and exciting news was shared on Anne's Facebook page by her son, Christopher Rice. In an article on Deadline.com (which I'll add a link to below), a new partnership between Anne's estate and Dinner Partners LLC (owned by Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn) and InkWell Management and Literate was announced. Although AMC acquired the rights to the Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches series in 2020 (film adaptations), this new partnership appears to cover the film/media rights to the remainder of Anne Rice's literary properties. Christopher and Anne Rice are the executive producers of the two AMC adaptations, but if I understand it correctly, it will be Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn who will be executive producers of adaptations through this new partnership.

Somebody correct me if I got this wrong.

I've added a few things to the pages of the Parlor that cover the Mayfair Witches series on AMC. Of course, I had to include at least one good shot of the dollhouse made for Season 2. This I added to the page of the Parlor that discusses the Soria-Creel house. OF COURSE I was thrilled to see that! Before I ever even learned to use a computer, I had a love of realistic miniatures that remains to this day. One of these days, maybe I'll share some photos of some miniatures I own. I've even got some real kiln-fired bricks that are miniature! They just kill me!

In all seriousness, though, I thought the use of the dollhouse and how it was filmed to be a sort of window into the living world of the living Mayfairs was incredible. This is something I go into a little more in my blog posts on the episodes. One brief featurette shared on TikTok by amc+ discusses the dollhouse, and it's one of the few reposts I've made on the Parlor's TikTok. Generally, I prefer to add clips by others to playlists (like on YouTube) or collections (like on TikTok), but only repost certain ones, like one would on Facebook.

It's hard to say whether or not there will be a Season 3. Certainly, there are some directions to take the story if there is. If there is, let's hope it doesn't take two more years to finally make it to the screen.

Anne Rice Estate & Dinner Partners Sign With InkWell Management & Literate

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