Blackwood Farm
- 640
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Blackwood Farm” is an atmospheric instalment of “The Vampire Chronicles” in which Anne Rice brings her vampires together with the Mayfair witches. Some readers stay for Rice’s prose, her swamps and her old manor house while finding the first half slow and missing a payoff for several threads. Others are disturbed by the sexualisation of a fifteen-year-old girl. At over six hundred pages, it is mainly for those already invested in the cycle.
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About the book
Blackwood Farm is a 2002 vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the ninth book in her The Vampire Chronicles series. The novel includes some characters who cross over from Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy (1990–1994), continuing the unified story begun in Merrick (2000).
Reading order · The Vampire Chronicles
Full order & progress →- Interview with the VampireStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Vampire Lestat
7.97.9 / 10 - The Queen of the Damned
7.57.5 / 10 - The Tale of the Body Thief
7.17.1 / 10 - Memnoch the Devil
7.37.3 / 10 - The Vampire Armand
7.37.3 / 10 - Merrick
7.37.3 / 10 - Blood and Gold
7.67.6 / 10 - Blackwood FarmThis book
7.37.3 / 10 - Blood Canticle
7.27.2 / 10 - Prince Lestat
–Not ranked yet - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
–Not ranked yet - Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince LestatBlood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 74 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 6 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 68 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Blackwood Farm?
It has 640 pages — longer than 88% of the ranked books in Horror.
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