The wind is howling, the floorboards are creaking and the lights are flickering. Lock the doors, bar the windows and get the candles ’cause a storm is coming. A storm of literary spookiness that is. Here at Better World Books, October is the month for all things creepy. We’ve got goblins, ghosts, witches, zombies, monsters and of course vampires roaming the warehouse and we’re about to send them your way.
Be afraid… be very afraid.
And then quit being so dramatic and enjoy today’s Spooky Book of the Day:
THE WITCHING HOUR by Anne Rice
Seemed only right to start with witches and Anne Rice!
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW called it a “huge and sprawling tale of horror.”
FROM THE PUBLISHER: “Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches–a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.
Moving in time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in.”
