Blackwood Farm: A Folktale from the Vampire Chronicles

In her new novel perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative — her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches — to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns spacious drawing rooms bright sun-drenched gardens and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgnger Goblin a spirit from a dream world that Quinn cant escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality his doppelgnger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time from Quinns boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise of loss and the search for love of secrets and destiny Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.