The Witches, by Peter Curtis
The Witches has become the default title of Peter Curtis’s 1960 occult novel, due to the 1966 Hammer adaptation. It was originally The Devil’s Own, however, and later became The Little Wax Doll, published under the author’s real name of Norah Lofts. This latest edition comes from Hammer itself, as one of a number of reprints and new novelizations designed to cash in on the rebirth of the famous horror studio. The Witches is an old-fashioned potboiler, written at a time when seemingly normal English people everywhere were abandoning themselves to the Devil, casting off their clothes to indulge in all manner of naughtiness. In Curtis’s…
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Jacob Burman No way, this is coming out on blu-ray? Might have to get my mother this.
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