Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . .

Praise for Taltos

�??Taltos is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera.�?��??The Washington Post Book World

�??Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature.�?��??San Francisco Chronicle
�??An intricate, stunning imagination.�?��??Los Angeles Times Book Review

�??Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller.�?��??Cosmopolitan

�??Beautifully written.�?��??Kirkus Reivews (starred review)

�??Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe�??s daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Mis

Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:"RICE IS A FORMIDABLE TALENT...[Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history and high soap opera."
�??The Washington Post Book World
"CAPTIVATING...TALTOS IS A WONDERFUL OFFERING...THE BEST SHE'S DONE....There is a new member of Anne Rice's macabre family of monsters, and he's probably the loneliest, most melancholy creature on earth....Rice keeps the mystic fires burning strong."
�??The Milwaukee Journal
"SPELLBINDING...MYTHICAL...Anne Rice is a pure storyteller."
�??Cosmopolitan
"RICE IS A STYLISH WRITER...What works best throughout the book is the magical collusion of the real and the mythical, the intermingling of the Taltos and witches with ordinary mortals in the present-day world."
�??New York Newsday
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN."
�??Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"WHAT CAN I CONFESS? I'M ASHLAR. I'M A TALTOS.
It's centuries since I've seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I've heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I touched my own flesh and blood, as humans are so fond of saying. Never in all this time....[pg. 64]
When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of

The third volume in the saga of the Mayfair witches journeys through time to explore an ancient civilization of mysterious origins that finds itself at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt.

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Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. A movie of Rice's bestseller, Interview with a Vampire, is scheduled for November release.

From the Hardcover edition.

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The adventures of the Taltos, superhuman beings born of witches and known for being violent and oversexed. The story centers on arranging a union between two of them, one a wealthy doll manufacturer in New York, the other a dwarf in Scotland. The union would end the New Yorker's loveless existence, the result of a curse imposed on him for trying to convert his clan to Christianity. By the author of Lasher. Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt.

Mr. Ash learns there are other surviving Taltos and goes to New Orleans, where he becomes involved with the Mayfair witches.

Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the third installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles�the inspiration for the hit television series!

�[Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera.��The Washington Post Book World
 
When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.
 
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice. . . .
 
The magic of the Mayfairs continues:
THE WITCHING HOUR � LASHER � TALTOS.

Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt.

The adventures of the Taltos, superhuman beings born of witches and known for being violent and oversexed. The story centers on arranging a union between two of them, one a wealthy doll manufacturer in New York, the other a dwarf in Scotland. The union would end the New Yorker's loveless existence, the result of a curse imposed on him for trying to convert his clan to Christianity....

In Anne Rice's huge, mesmeric, eagerly awaited new novel she continues her universe-making, legend-building epic of the Mayfair dynasty of witches -women, men, demons locked in wars, good and evil -a complex world of the occult as hypnotic as the world of her Vampire Chronicles.The Taltos are the spirits, immortal, dangerous and damned from whom the Mayfairs derive their occult powers, and at whose mercy they are...A seductive, terrifying and sensual saga that will hold readers enthralled by its storytelling and mythmaking power.

Continuing the epic of the Mayfair witches, this brilliantly imagined tale takes listeners on a wondrous journey back through the centuries. 4 cassettes.

Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled souls struggling as they have for centuries to use both science and magic in their battle for greatness, even survival. At the heart of the novel is the Talamasca, a secular order of psychic scholars, the only organization in existence which may understand Ash, his Taltos past, and the dilemma of the Mayfair witches. The story of the Mayfair family continues, moving from London to Donnelaith, Scotland, to New Orleans, back and forth through time - from the origins of the Taltos and their mythic Lost Land to the moral crises of the present day.

"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE." --San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera." --The Washington Post Book World "AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller." --Cosmopolitan "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice." --The Wall Street Journal From the Paperback edition.

When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . . -- �?? -- �?? -- �??The Wall Street

Taltos es la tercera entrega de «Las Brujas de Mayfair», la saga en la que la autora de Entrevista con el vampiro recuperaba el recurso de tomar voces de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana y conformar así un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor. «Taltos» es el nombre con el que se denomina a la criatura que nace del cruce entre dos brujas humanas que poseen un cromosoma adicional. Casi un monstruo, un taltos es capaz de comportarse de forma bestial y de alimentar un impulso sexual extraordinario. «Después del primer día, Rowan no volvió a pronunciar palabra. Se pasaba el día sentada bajo la encina en un sillón de mimbre blanco, con los pies apoyados en un cojín, o simplemente sobre la hierba. »Contemplaba la tapia, las flores o los tejos. Jamás miraba el suelo. »Quizás había olvidado que justo debajo de sus pies, había una sepultura doble, cubierta de una espesa hierba que crecía rápidamente gracias a las abundantes lluvias y al potente sol primaveral de Louisiana.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . . Praise for Taltos "Taltos is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [Taltos]is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera."--The Washington Post Book World "Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature."--San Francisco Chronicle "An intricate, stunning imagination."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them. Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, towards their ultimate fate...

-- The magic of the Mayfairs continues:THE WITCHING HOUR � LASHER � TALTOS.

The continued story of Rowan Mayfair and her family of witches, and creatures created by them, the Taltos.

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Cutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries in this continuation of Rice's series of novels about witches and the supernatural. A ``taltos'' is the superhuman result of the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromosome; almost a monster, the creature is capable of beastly behavior fuelled by an extraordinary sex drive. In Lasher , the eponymous offspring of Michael Curry and Rowan Mayfair of the New Orleans Mayfair witch clan proved to be just such a mutant; before he was slain, he repeatedly raped his own mother, siring a little ``goblin'' daughter, Emaleth. This new novel features a second taltos, also fathered by Curry, but mothered by a 13-year-old sexpot niece of Rowan's named Mona, who is herself the most powerful witch of the Mayfair clan. Other plot elements involve renegade members of the secret order of Talamasca, who want to kidnap and crossbreed two taltoses; a 200-year-old taltos from New York named Ashlar, who is posing as a toy-industry magnate specializing in dolls; and a dwarf called Samuel from the witches' holy glen in Donnelaith, Scotland. Pulsing with a persisent sense of foreboding, the novel is soggy with meandering, atmospheric prose that verges on softcore porn. And, as usual, what happens in the book is clearly less important to the author than the number of chills she can send down readers' spines. She has not lost her touch. 600,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.

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Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. A movie of Rice's bestseller, Interview with a Vampire, is scheduled for November release.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Mr. Ash learns there are other surviving Taltos and goes to New Orleans, where he becomes involved with the Mayfair witches. Sr. Ash se entera de que hay otros Taltos que sobreviven y se va a Nueva Orleans, donde se involucra con las brujas de Mayfair.

An ancient civilization of mysterious origins finds itself at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt.

The adventures of the Taltos, superhuman beings born of witches and known for being violent and oversexed. The story centers on arranging a union between two of them, one a wealthy doll manufacturer in New York, the other a dwarf in Scotland.

The third volume in the series featuring the Mayfair witches, following "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher". The Taltos are the spirits - immortal, dangerous and damned - from whom the Mayfairs derive their occult powers, and at whose mercy they are.

It's centuries since I've seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I've heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I touched my own flesh and blood, as humans are so fond of saying. Never in all this time.... When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.

WHAT CAN I CONFESS? I'M ASHLAR. I'M A TALTOS. It's centuries since I've seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I've heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I touched my own flesh and blood, as humans are so fond of saying. Never in all this time... When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . .

Ash, der letzte aus dem Geschlecht der Taltos, besitzt alles, wovon Menschen träumen, außer der Liebe einer Frau. Diese lernt er durch die Neurochirurgin Rowan Mayfair kennen. Doch eine Geheimgesellschaft schmiedet ein tödliches Komplott gegen die beiden. - Fantasyroman. (Reihenfolge der Hexensaga: 1. Hexenstunde. 2. Tanz der Hexen. 3. Die Mayfair-Hexen)

I Mayfair-familien er taltos-genet ved at uddø efter Lashers forræderi mod Rowan. Imidlertid møder den unge heks Mona Mayfair dukkefabrikanten Ash - af samme æt - og slægten kan leve videre.

Sequel to: Lasher.

La quatrie me de couverture indique : "M. Ash est a la te te d'un immense empire financier. Il est aussi le dernier repre sentant de l'espe ce le gendaire des Taltos. Mais biento t il apprend que l'on a signale l'un des siens en Ecosse, sur les lieux me mes ou , des sie cles plus to t, il dirigeait son clan. Ses investigations le conduisent a Rowan Mayfair et sa famille de sorcie res. Il de couvre que les pouvoirs exceptionnels des femmes Mayfair sont lie s a l'he ritage des Taltos..."

La trilog�a en la que se basa la nueva serie de AMC+, ambientada en el universo de Entrevista con el vampiro. -- �Despu�s del primer d�a, Rowan no volvi� a pronunciar palabra. Se pasaba el d�a sentada bajo la encina en un sill�n de mimbre blanco, con los pies apoyados en un coj�n, osimplemente sobre la hierba.�Contemplaba la tapia, las flores o los tejos. Jam�s miraba el suelo.�Quiz�s hab�a olvidado que justo debajo de sus pies, hab�a una sepultura doble, cubierta de una espesa hierba que crec�a r�pidamente gracias a las abundantes lluvias y al potente sol primaveral de Louisiana.�.

Después del primer día, Rowan no volvió a pronunciar palabra. Se pasaba el día sentada bajo la encina en un sillón de mimbre blanco, con los pies apoyados en un cojín, o simplemente sobre la hierba. Contemplaba la tapia, las flores o los tejos. Jamás miraba el suelo. Quizás había olvidado que justo debajo de sus pies, había una sepultura doble, cubierta de una espesa hierba que crecía rápidamente gracias a las abundantes lluvias y al potente sol primaveral de Louisiana. En la serie Las Brujas de Mayfair (integrada por 'Las hora de las brujas', 'La voz del diablo' y 'Taltos'), Anne Rice toma las voces de seres de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana, logrando conformar todo un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor.

En la serie las Brujas de Mayfair (integrada por las hora de las brujas, La voz del diablo y Taltos), Anne Rice toma las voces de seres de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana, logrando conformar todo un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y

Taltos es la tercera entrega de "Las Brujas de Mayfair", la saga en la que la autora de Entrevista con el vampiro recuperaba el recurso de tomar voces de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana y conformar as� un universo mitol�gico hipn�tico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor. "Taltos" es el nombre con el que se denomina a la criatura que nace del cruce entre dos brujas humanas que poseen un cromosoma adicional. Casi un monstruo, un taltos es capaz de comportarse de forma bestial y de alimentar un impulso sexual extraordinario. Despu�s del primer d�a, Rowan no volvi� a pronunciar palabra. Se pasaba el d�a sentada bajo la encina en un sill�n de mimbre blanco, con los pies apoyados en un coj�n, o simplemente sobre la hierba. Contemplaba la tapia, las flores o los tejos. Jam�s miraba el suelo. Quiz�s hab�a olvidado que justo debajo de sus pies, hab�a una sepultura doble, cubierta de una espesa hierba que crec�a r�pidamente gracias a las abundantes lluvias y al potente sol primaveral de Louisiana. --

Ashlar, un personaje de la raza Taltos, está dotado de un conocimiento paranormal y de una longevidad de siglos.

Tercera parte de la serie "Las brujas de Mayfair". El magnetismo, el atrevimiento, el poder erótico y la amargura de una pasión que supera el tiempo distinguieron la ya proverbial Entrevista con el vampiro. En Taltos, esas características se multiplican y conforman un mundo mitológico e hipnótico, más oscuro y a la vez más seductor que el de las Crónicas Vampíricas. Taltos habla de una raza poderosa dotada de conocimientos paranormales, que se alimenta de segundos y vive a lo largo de los siglos.