Anne Rice's The Witching Hour #3 of 13 The Motherhouse

Anne rice's the witching hour 3 of 5 The lushly painted story centers around an old antebellum mansion in New Orleans. Within that house, three maiden aunts cared for a strangely quiet girl named Deirdre. Deirdre sat nearly catatonic on the porch, never speaking to anyone, although a succession of nurses had quit citing vague "attacks."