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Below you will find a reading list for Anne Rice's “The Lives of the Mayfair Witches" (1990/1994) trilogy and adjacent.

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• Haitian Vodou
• European "Witch" hunts; a history
• Haitian Revolution (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
• Haitian Revolution (Wikipedia)

• Lord Byron (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
• Lord Byron (project Gutenberg)

• The Smith and the devil

• The Smith and The Devil (trope)

• The Smith and the Devil (folktale, 1916)

• Anne Rice: an All Saints' Day Celebration
• Historic Nola collection
• Vampire Chronicles novels resources

• Beyond bourbon street
• The Bisexual Manifesto (1990)
• Bisexual History Archive
• Anything That Moves (1990-2001)
• Journal of Bisexuality
• The Virtue of Crime
• Queer Gothic: Angela Carter and the lost narratives of sexual subversion
• Familiarity Breeds: Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty

Non Exhaustive Podcast List

• Anne Rice on The Dinner Party Show

• Christopher Rice & Eric Shaw Quinn podcast AnneCASTS

• Dinner With Anne Rice

• The Articulate Coven

Viewer discretion is advised (nonfiction)

'It's no devil,' I said. 'And why do you say that?' she asked again, as if we hadn't discussed this before. 'Because, I said, 'the Devil has more important things to do if he exists at all, and on the point of his existence at all I am not certain. 'Where did you get an idea there was no Devil?' 'Rousseau,' I said. 'His philosophy argues that the worst evil is in man.' — Julien Mayfair to Marie Claudette Mayfair (Lasher) The Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice (1993)

• Haitian Revolution (Black Past)
• Haitian Revolution (slavery and remembrance)

• Marlene L. Daut, Awakening the ashes: an intellectual history of the Haitian Revolution
• C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins
• Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
• The Code Noire, 1685
• The Code Noire, slavery and the French Revolution
• Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White
• How The Irish Became White (StoryGraph)
• Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America
• The Haitian Revolution
• Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
• Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
• Frederick Douglas
• Lord George Byron
• Vincent Woodard & Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
• The Delactable Negro (Storygraph)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi by George Byron Merrick
• The United States and the Haitian Revolution
• Ron Chernow, Grant

• 18th century through 1830 nonfiction

• Antisemitism Education by the Jewitches
• Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present