Mayfair Witches: Books vs. Series

Mayfair Witches is Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford's 2023 series, adapted from books by Anne Rice. It stars Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston and Harry Hamlin and ran for 2 seasons and 16 episodes on AMC.

Coming · Season 3Season 3 on AMC December 30, 2026
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The books, in order

  1. 1The Witching Hour1990KindlePaperbackAudiobook
    Details
    The Witching Hour cover
    Author
    Anne Rice
    Year
    1990
    Pages
    976
    Audiobook length
    50 hr 2 min
    Narrator
    Kate Reading
    Series
    Lives of the Mayfair Witches, book 1

    The Mayfairs are a New Orleans family whose wealth and supernatural gifts are bound to a spirit called Lasher. Beginning with neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair's discovery of her inheritance, these three books trace the family's history and the force that follows its women across generations. Their attempts to understand and control that legacy open questions about the origins of their powers and the beings entangled with them.

  2. Details
    Lasher cover
    Author
    Anne Rice
    Year
    1993
    Pages
    592
    Audiobook length
    28 hr 30 min
    Narrator
    Kate Reading
    Series
    Lives of the Mayfair Witches, book 2

    Rowan Mayfair is bound to Lasher, the spirit whose influence has followed generations of her family since seventeenth-century Scotland. Now she must escape the being she once found irresistible. Her flight unfolds alongside the history of the Mayfair witches, exposing how the family's power and suffering have become entangled with his ambitions.

  3. Details
    Taltos cover
    Author
    Anne Rice
    Year
    1994
    Pages
    480
    Audiobook length
    22 hr 3 min
    Narrator
    Kate Reading
    Series
    Lives of the Mayfair Witches, book 3

    Ashlar believes his kind has almost vanished until he hears that another Taltos has been seen. His search leads him to the Mayfair witches, whose dealings with the supernatural have connected their family to his species. As their paths converge, his memories reveal a civilization whose history extends far beyond the Mayfairs' own.

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