Blackwood Farm

Returning as both a demon and a savior, Lestat rules over a macabre tale of generational hate and greed inside a family, a horrifying drama of treachery and bloodlust, possession and matricide. Nestled between shadowy cypress swamps in Louisiana, Blackwood Farm is home to an opulent house reminiscent of the South, as well as horrifying family ghosts and bloodstains. Young, reckless, and attractive Quinn Blackwood, who is also a "bloodhunter," is the heir to them all, and Lestat adopts him. However, Quinn is enslaved not only to his own desires and the past but also—and this is even more dangerous—to a companion spirit, a "goblin" succubus that has the power to kill both him and others. Quinn could neither be saved from himself and his ghosts, nor could the destined girl Quinn loves be saved from her own mortality, until the otherworldly force of Lestat was paired with the earthly abilities of the Mayfair dynasty. This work with a deceptively mild title presents us with Anne Rice at her most profoundly disturbing—shocking, brutal, and intensely erotic. Amidst a whirlwind of devastation and death, blood and fire, cruelty and destiny, stand men and women, vampires and witches, demons, and a doppelgänger.