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Blackwood Farm

  • 1998 first published
  • 633 pages
  • ★ 3.5 (6 ratings)
  • 31 editions

Anne Rice's Blackwood Farm (1998) is a vampire fiction and witch fiction novel. Much of the action takes place in Louisiana. Characters include Lestat (Vampire) (1760-). It deals with vampires, mayfair family, spirit possession and witches.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 119 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 31 editions across 4 languages.

It runs to roughly 633 pages — 11–12 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Blackwood Farm

Publication to coincide with new Vampire Chronicle BLOOD CANTICLE in hardback.Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide.Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality- Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelg-nger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Characters

  • Lestat (Vampire) (1760-)

Subjects

  • Vampires
  • Horror
  • Mayfair family
  • Spirit possession
  • Witches
  • Lestat
  • Louisiana
  • Lestat, Fictional character
  • Supernatural
  • Horror fiction
  • Occult fiction
  • Posesión
  • Novela
  • Mayfair, Familia
  • Lestat, Personaje literario
  • Vampiros

Quick answers

Who wrote Blackwood Farm?

Blackwood Farm was written by Anne Rice and first published in 1998.

What genre is Blackwood Farm?

It is usually shelved as Vampire Fiction, Witch Fiction, Horror and Occult Fiction.

How long is Blackwood Farm?

The median edition has 633 pages, about 11–12 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Blackwood Farm?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dead to the World, 'Salem’s Lot and Night Shift.

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