Trivia

Anne Rice's New Orleans Garden District home was the setting of the Mayfairs' ancestral home in the novels. For those who are not local to the area, The Garden District is just outside the Central Business District, and area is known for its opulent mansions and oak tree-lined streets, the St. Charles streetcar, Magazine street shopping and restaurants, the renowned Commander's Palace restaurant, and the historic Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

Anne Rice Catalog AMC acquired in 2020 that will be serialized for the Immortal Universe:

• The Vampire Chronicles Series - Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch The Devil, The Vampire Armand, Pandora, Vittorio the Vampire, Blood and Gold, Prince Lestat, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, and Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat
• The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches Series - The Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos
• The Vampire Chronicles/The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches Crossover Novels: Merrick, Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle

The Talamasca group's official motto, which they printed on their business cards, was "We watch. And we are always here." Rice found the word "Talamasca" in a history book, learning it meant "animal mask" in Latin. (In some cultures, it meant witch or shaman.)

In The Witching Hour (2023) and Curiouser and Curiouser (2023), Lasher showers Dierdre with rose petals. The showrunner Esta Spalding said that rose petals are really one of the ways that Lasher showed love for Dierdre. It was a particular language between the two of them; A form of seduction. This is may be an allusion by Anne Rice to the Wiccan practice known as the Rite of Roses. The ceremony is a rite of passage, the first time when a girl menstruates, and is conducted by a coven where the young girl recites her maternal family line, has her face brushed by a water soaked rose petal by her mother, followed by a stroll and chanting in the moonlight. It's really about coming into womanhood, your power, your beauty, your authority, your eroticism, and connecting with the other women of your community.

The Witching Hour is the time late at night when the powers of a witch, magician, etc., are believed to be strongest.