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Haunted City: An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical, Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice (Revised & Updated)
Haunted City An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice - Revised & Updated Author:Joy Dickinson New Orleans is one of America's most romantic and mysterious cities. Its steamy, languid climate; its cultural gumbo and its celebrated corruption, cuisine, and cemeteries all combine to make the Crescent City a magical place. New Orleans is also the setting for Anne Rice's wildly popular novels chronicling the demimonde of vampires and ... more »witches.
The newly updated guide provides all the New Orleans hotels, gravesites, streets, and places mentioned or evoked in Anne Rice's novels Interview With the Vampire, The Tale of the Body Thief, The Witching Hour, Lasher: Taltos and Violin. Whether you are reading this book while sitting in a cafe in Jackson Square with a cup of cafe au lait and a beignet or snuggled in a wing chair at home, Haunted City will bring you closer to unveiling the mysteries and marvels of New Orleans. Each chapter begins wit a discussion of the places most closely related to Rice's works and then moves to other locales of particular historical significance. Complete with maps, photos, and pratical tourist information, Haunted City is a thoroughly researched travel guide.
Perfect as either a walking-tour guide for New Orleans visitors or as an Anne Rice compananion for the armchair vampire, Haunted City is sure to please those millions of readers who share Rice's love affair with America's most exotic and intoxicating locale.« less