Anne & Christopher Rice, A Family Fiction

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ANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER RICE

SUPERNATURAL, PARANORMAL, MAGICAL, AND SURREALISTIC

I am in the process of fulfilling an important piece of research on Anne Rice’s novel Merrick, and the use of magic in the novel along with various references to cultures where magic is or was fundamental. She refers to Voodoo, Candomblé, Maya, Olmec, and even older rites and magics enabling contact with spirits, ghosts, and other supernatural beings within two fictional contexts she has used in many books, the Mayfair witches and…