Anne Rice FAQ
Wonderful Witches
** Do I have to read VampChron in order to understand TWH?
No. TWH series, for the most part, stands on its own.
However the two series are connected in a very weird way.
Namely, they aren't connected enough that Lestat will be
popping over to the Mayfair house any day now, but they
are connected enough that you can get a nasty spoiler
now and then if you're not prepared. Specifically, Lasher
contains a spoiler about what happens to David at the end of
TotBT and MtD has a spoiler about what happens to Aaron
Lightener. So if you don't want to know these facts out of
hand, consider yourself warned.
**But isn't MERRICK a VC/TWH crossover?No. (see Vamps, Witches, Now What? for why not)
** In TWH, how could Michael Curry see Lasher?
See "How on earth is Michael Curry related to the Mayfairs
(besides being married to Rowan I mean)?"
** Ok. How on earth is Michael Curry related to the Mayfairs
(besides being married to Rowan I mean)?
For this, I'll quote Lasher himself as he inadvertently
explained it to Rowan:
"And then Julien brought Evelyn to his house and there
conceived Laura Lee, who gave birth to Alicia and Gifford.
And from Julien also the illegitimate child, Michael
O'Brien, born to the girl in St. Margaret's orphanage, who
gave it up and went into the convent to beome Sister Bridget
Marie, and then from that girl, three boys and one girl, and
that girl married Alaister Curry who gave birth to Tim
Curry, who..." [Lasher is interrupted by Rowan].
** Why is it that when a Taltos is pregnant the baby is born
immediately but when a human is pregnant with a Taltos it takes
longer?
According to what Ash says, a Taltos baby grows more quickly in
the womb when its mother recognizes it for what it is. So, when
a Taltos is pregnant, they obviously know it right away and thus
the baby is born but when a human is pregnant with a Taltos baby,
they don't necessarily know what it is until some time later
(Morrigan, for example, only grew rapidly after Mona knew for sure
that she was pregnant).
** Is there going to be a TWH movie?
The latest official word that I have on this is from CS#3:
"I HAVE WRITTEN THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE WITCHING HOUR
FOR DAVID GEFFEN. That means, I did get hired, I did
get paid, they (GEFFEN AND WARNERS) bought the rights
to LASHER (I wasn't going to venture forth without Mona
Mayfair and also without Lasher himself in the flesh).
I have turned in my one and only draft. The draft. The
author's vision. The movie according to Rice. The canonical
version.
What they will do with it is anybody's guess...."
Since CS #3 there have been many rumors and wishful thinking but nothing definate yet I'm afraid.
** Is there any companion book for TWH like there is for
VampChron?
** Help! I just finished Taltos and I'm dying to read the
next TWH book! Will there be one?
Anne does want to put out a new TWH book but right now she's
not sure what exactly it will be about. The latest word from
her was that she wanted to do a book that focused on Mona
(not Morrigan as earlier reports had claimed). There is
no word yet if the events that happened in MtD will have any
effect on the characters and plots of future TWH books.
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