On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking . . . and The Witching Hour begins.

It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery--aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches--finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.

• Used secondhand hardback book.
• First edition, third printing, hardcover with dust jacket. 
• Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.
  
• Vampire witchy horror fiction.
  
• Pages 966.
  
• In good used condition with minimal shelf wear. Mild foxing dusty edges, a small corner fold to first page and a tear in the edge or dust cover, see pix but otherwise pretty good to this very heavy book.