The Witching Hour Summary
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The Witching Hour Summary

Rice writes about the supernatural world that she feels co-exists with the so-called natural world. In TheWitching Hour, witches and demons with powers beyond those of humans use those powers for good and evil. Unlike the vampires in her Vampire Chronicles, the witches in this novel are not especially harmful to the health of mortals, and they in fact are mortal themselves, burning to death or crashing to earth from great heights from...

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