<p><b>From the Inside Flap</b><br>"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</p>