Conjure Wife
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Average rating3.4
Norman Saylor considered witchcraft nothing but quaint superstition until he learned his own wife was a practising sorceress. Even then, he still refused to accept the truth—one that every woman knows but no man dares to believe—that in the secret occult warfare that governs our everyday lives, witchcraft is a matter of life and death. Conjure Wife is a masterpiece of witchcraft and dark fantasy and the source of the classic horror film Burn Witch Burn!
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3 primary booksJ-horror
J-horror is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1932 with contributions by A. Merritt, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Fritz Leiber.
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Another difficult one to rate... It is well written, but so damn... not misogynist, but something like that. It was somewhat scary and clever, but also somewhat aggravating and frustrating with all the mansplaining and “logic and rationality”. It was hard to stay in the story with all the eye-rolling. Maybe I'm getting too old with this crap :-D
I also watched the 1962 movie Night of the Eagle or Burn, Witch, Burn. The book was better :-D
I recommend this as a Halloween horror reading.
BTW, this is not a good cover for this story, but it's so dang pretty that I don't have the heart to choose something better. :-D
