PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror a series of terrifying novels
and tales that for generations have thrilled captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.
Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel Fleming a priest plagued by doubts
about her and her daughters' execution for witchcraft. Did he do all he could to rescue them
from damnation? From beyond the grave Joan reveals to him the spine-chilling tale of her
seduction by Satan her temptation of her own daughters to the Devil's coven her murderous
sacrifices and her final rejection by both Heaven and Hell - yet Samuel still strives for a
way to redeem her sins. Over their terrifying conversations Samuel learns the way of the
witches' sabbath and comes to the dark realisation that Joan's soul may not be the only one in
need of saving. . . Based on real seventeenth-century witch trials in Lincolnshire The Witch
and the Priest is a masterpiece of historical atmosphere and psychological horror. 'Strange
terror fills this tale of seventeenth-century witchcraft ... horrific and written with much
skill.' - Daily Telegraph
