"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE."<br>--San Francisco Chronicle<br>"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. . .<br> [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera."<br>--The Washington Post Book World<br>"AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION."<br>--Los Angeles Times Book Review<br>"SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller."<br>--Cosmopolitan<br>"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN."<br>--Kirkus Reviews (starred)<br>"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."<br>--The Wall Street Journal