The Witching Hour
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Three main elements classify the genre: Gothic, Mystery, and Romance. I
classify Gothic novels as stories pertaining to a dismal atmosphere, such as
Edgar Allan Poe's literature. .
Lovers who unlock thirteen generation's of Mayfair family secrets and incest;
discovering that their intervention becomes a more complex-intertwining destiny.
Our Antagonist Michael Curry, a 48-year old Irish man who had lost himself in
a world in which he had accomplished his dreams, experienced his emotional pain,
and yet he felt empty. Michael approached the rocks of the bay, thought of his
life and emptiness, then he slipped and fell to his fatal doom in the sea.
Found by a ...
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to go back on the deck of the boat where he was rescued. He wanted to
talk to the woman who rescued him, for he thought that she would let him touch
the boat to recover images that night. He discovered that this neurosurgeon, Dr.
Rowan Mayfair, was the veritable love of his life. After he discovered how much
he deeply loved Rowan, he began to reminisce the images of his purpose; that
certain elements and images of his childhood hinted him to return to the house
he had been fascinated with in New Orleans as a child. Another major character
of the story, Englishmen Aaron Lightner, was a part of an archaic organization
known as the "Talamasca". Aaron studied a family called the Mayfairs in New
Orleans, because his organization had believed the Mayfairs to be witches. He
devoted his life to the history of the Mayfair witches, and his organization had
compiled a history of the Mayfairs since the days of the 17th century
inquisition in Europe. As he watched Michael and Rowan ...
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Suzanne. Lasher,
an ignorant being who learned over the generations of human nature to educate
himself in this new realm. He eventually enlightened Rowan of his past, his
intentions and his knowledge, for she had the gift to see him after his mother's
death. But she was warned of this being by Aaron's knowledge, her new-found
immensely grown family, and Michael, who studied with the Talamasca when Aaron
came into his life. The being is seductive, and after letting Lasher come
between Michael and her, Lasher destroys their child, and spawns himself into
this fetal organism to be human based on his new knowledge fed to him by our
times. Rowan was the door, the thirteenth witch. It's complex, ...
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