Yes, Season 3

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Season 3?

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Episode 8 - The Innocents

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Episodes 6 & 7 - Michaelmas and A Tangled Web

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A Bit of Review During the Break

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Episode 5 - Julien's Victrola

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Episode 4 - Double Helix

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Episode 3 - Cover the Mirrors

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Episode 2 - Ten of Swords

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Episode 1 - Lasher

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Mayfair Witches Onscreen

One Month Season 1 Countdown From 2022

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At the top of Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches, you have no doubt seen a countdown timer.  Countdowns seem to be a "thing" these days.  Why?  Dunno.

But I decided to put one up anyway.

The countdown is how much longer until Season 2 of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches premieres on AMC.  It premieres on January 5, 2025.

I haven't spent much time talking about the series in the last few months because I've been preoccupied with technical details.  And I do mean technical.  Hopefully, the result is all things are functional with nothing functioning in the background that I don't know about.  It's rude.

What I want to focus on now is the pages of the Mayfair Witches Parlor that discuss the AMC series.  You can find them from here, Chronicles of the Mayfair Wtiches, by scrolling to Mayfair Witches From Page to Screen.  The image there, the one of Rowan becoming entangled in the rose vines as if they're reaching out from the wallpaper to entangle her, is one of the promotional images from Season 1.  It's also one of my favorites because it really does illustrate the way the legacy of the Mayfair Witches ensnares Rowan.  

It has been nearly 30 years since I first read these novels, and they left a lasting impression me for several reasons.  The TV series is obviously very new and very recent in this timeline.  It is also being released in a time very different than the ones the books were first published in.  One of the first things that jumped out at me was the confusion over the Garden District house used as the Mayfair Witches house in the novels versus the TV series.  To me, it's basic knowledge that Anne Rice used her own then-home, the Brevard-Rice house at 1239 First Street in New Orleans, as the house Rowan Mayfair inherited from her mother, Deirdre, that she and Michael Curry restore and live in.  When Season 1 first premiered, people commented that the house used in the show, the Soria-Creel house, sure looked like Anne Rice's former home.  

Yes, there are several houses in the Garden District that are built like American townhouses with Greek Revival-Italianate architecture.  Of course, they have the iconic iron lace the porches and galleries of New Orleans are famous for.  Each has its own style, its own colors, and even the basic layouts have their own unique differences.  Depending on where they are, many of the houses have grounds of different sizes.  

In the case of the Brevard-Rice house, one of the features that is fairly unique to it is the fact that the columns along the front of the house are of different styles.  I'll have to go back and check, but I did read once that when the house was being built, Albert Brevard wanted those particular styles of columns because he liked both styles.  Therefore, he decided the columns along the front of his new home would feature both styles.  The end result was, of course, that there are three different styles.

Another architectural tidbit about 1239 First Street is that the library and master bedroom were added later.  Elizabeth Brevard sold the house to Emory Clapp in or about 1869, ten years after her father's death.  It was Emory Clapp who hired the original architects, James Calrow and Charles Pride, to add the library and master bedroom.  Clapp died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1880.  Of what, I've not been able to find out, but it's possible he died of tuberculosis, as Colorado Springs was known for its tuberculosis sanitariums beginning around that period.  Emory Clapp and his wife, who remained in the house until her death in 1934, are entombed in Metairie Cemetery, which is where Anne Rice is entombed with her husband and daughter.

If you look at a 1990 first edition hard cover print of The Witching Hour, look at the title pages.  You will see a sketch of the house, which is very clearly the house Anne Rice owned and lived in, 1239 First Street in New Orleans.  The Trade paperback edition of the novel was released in November 1991 and has the same sketch.  I have a Trade paperback copy of the novel from that time with the sketch in it.  The Mass Market edition of the novel was released in May 1993 and features the house on its cover with the lightning around it.  

If that doesn't settle the question of whether or not Anne Rice used her own home as the setting of the Mayfair house that Rowan inherited in her novels, I don't know what will.

Speaking of the novel versus the screen, I began a list of comparisons between specific things in the TV series that were different than the novels.  That list should be on the page of the Parlor that is linked on the page you can find this blog on.  I know--CONFUSING.  It's hard to rebuild a site like mine on today's tools if you're not a business.

Anyway.

I'd intended to rewatch Season 1 so I could complete my list of comparisons.  Christmas is pretty quiet around here, so why not hole up and binge watch...something?  At least, until it's time for the yearly marathon of A Christmas Story...

IWtV Season 2 Finis

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IWtV Episode 7 Season 2

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IWtV Episode 6 Season 2

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IWtV Episode 5 Season 2

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IWtV Episode 4 Season 2

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The Parlor Has Some Goodies and an IWtV Season 2 Update...

The Parlor has been hard at work with building the 3D model of 1239 First Street!  Not only is it to help bring the world of the Mayfair Witches "to life", so to speak, the hobby itself can be calming when world events are in a state of total horror and chaos.  Very soon, I intend to make some brief videos of the model to show the details, but I'll give a few brief teasers here...

The painting is the one used on the first edition cover of Blood Canticle

The first edition of The Witching Hour had a drawing of 1239 First Street on the title page

A model of the coffee cup from Knives Out (2019).  I should make a New Orleans themed version...

For Interview With the Vampire fans, here is a video clip from AMC+'s YouTube channel:

Commentary on the Works of Anne Rice (and some updates)

Parlor Dumpster Fires...

For the last day or so, I have been going over each page of the Parlor, making sure all the code and hieroglyphics were correct, and found...

Some of the images on the Parlor pages were from their blog counterparts.  So that means I spent a fair amount of time making sure those links to images that were broken were fixed.  I don't have a software program I can do all of this in and I don't have access to FTP, so what I do on the Parlor, I do "by hand", so to speak.

I do occasionally perform a Google search of certain things to see if links and images have been indexed, and one thing I found, to my utter annoyance, is if you select an image on the site found in a Google Image search, you end up with no image, and a big triangle with an exclamation point in the middle of it.  I have been fixing those as well.  That happens because it's an image I had not yet supplied a new link to since moving the Parlor's images to their own Google house.  I've been fixing those as I go, as well.

Anne Rice Commentary page

There is a page on the site I have been meaning to add a little something more to for a long time.  Anne Rice Commentaries.  When I first read the books that are the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, there was so much included in the books that somehow, Anne Rice managed to fit together into these unforgettable books.  So when I found another book that I've talked about in more detail on the About Me page, The Witches' Companion, by Katherine Ramsland, that provided more information about these place, people and events, I had to have a copy of it!  

Katherine Ramsland has written several books on the works of Anne Rice.  One of them is Prism of the Night, a biography.  Another is, fittingly, The Vampire Companion.  There has always been a list of these books on the page linked above, but I wanted to do something more with it.  So, like I have throughout the site, I created some "mockup" covers for each book, and you'll see a row of the books at the top of the page.

I've done the same with the other books mentioned on this particular page of the site, and one, which is actually in audio, appears on an iPad screen.  

Several years ago, I ordered a VHS copy of the documentary, Anne Rice: Birth of the Vampire, by BBC.  It is an excellent documentary, and one I was thrilled to find a copy of on YouTube.  If you scroll down the page a bit, I've embedded the copy I found on YouTube.  You will also find it in the Anne Rice playlist on the Parlor's own YouTube channel.

Facebook

The Parlor has had a page on Facebook for a few months now.  I haven't done much with it yet, but more are noticing it's there, including Facebook!  I went to check Facebook one evening this week, and suddenly, I saw these streamers and confetti and stuff for it all over my screen!  So I thought, now would be a good time to do more with it.  

What, I'm not sure, but it is Facebook.  Perhaps it would be a place for discussion, a place to run ideas past you, feedback, commentary, critique, that sort of thing.  At the moment, I just know that means I will have to get back to the banner, which makes me wail dramatically.  

 "I have to go back in and figure out how to make it fit right and look right and OHHHHHH, this is gonna be a nightmare...!"  

I had to figure out how to do it on YouTube (that was fun), and I wasn't exactly technically inclined that way.  But I will figure it out!

The Parlor on Facebook 

Immortal Universe's Stunning Graphics

I'm also in the process of finding the music used in the little clips made by Immortal Universe (I assume) for AMC to advertise the show, Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches.  This was because not only do I find the music to be fantastic; I have seen comments that others who have left comments for Immortal Universe also would like to know what music they're hearing!

Immortal Universe has its own page on the Parlor site, where I go over the graphics made to promote the AMC series.  And I have an excuse to discuss the graphics, which I love.  The clips gallery on the site are all in GIF format with no sound, and I am working on adding to each one a little bitty version of the page divider I made for this page of the site as a kind of watermark.  

OMG, that is so cute...!

This little watermark is meant to indicate the source of the graphics.  I will probably do something similar with the divider made for the pages that discuss the show itself, the one that has the title graphics in it.  Though with AMC's logo added.  

Uh oh.  That means I'm gonna have to make one for anything from the Interview With the Vampire series, if for no other reason than I can't help myself.  Especially because red is actually my favorite color...

Also on this page is a section that gives a brief sampling of graphics by Orange Comet advertising the Mayfair Witches Pass via OpenSea.  Their video showing the Mayfair Emerald in the form of the key is not embedded on the site, but if you go to the Orange Comet and OpenSea sites, you will see that video and more graphics there.  However, you will find in the playlist the song used for their video. 

The Poem From Lasher and Some Music

I put together a video that shows the poem from Lasher, and laid the text over brief Mayfair Witches GIFs that were converted to MP4.  I managed to find some of the music used for the little clips used for those countdowns, the ones with the flowers.  I would loooooove to know how those were made because they are beautiful!

On The Poem, you will find the video embedded from YouTube.  The music used is a song used for the clips for each main character in the green frames.  To find the music, Google Chrome has a pretty good add-on for identifying a piece of music by playing it.  Another way is, if you upload content to YouTube using Studio, the Content ID system will identify it if the song is in said Content ID system.

Just for fun, I looked at Immortal Universe's Facebook page and looked at the different video clips.  For the countdowns with the animated flowers, I would occasionally come across questions about the music used in the little clips.  I've managed to find some of it, and I thought it might be useful to put that information here.  

Below is a "corrected" version of the beginning of music used for the 3 Days clip that I made and uploaded to YouTube with some flower graphics inspired by the clip.  The 3 Days clip can be found on Immortal Universe's Facebook and Twitter pages.

 The song in the clip above is called "The Devil's Palace" by Midnight Swami, Kurt Karver & Blake Blumenthal The full version of this song can be found in this playlist on the Parlor's YouTube channel: