Robin Ritchie

An unusual example of early weird fiction and psychological horror by Haynes, which tells the story of a young girl in rural Scotland who frequently wanders off at night by herself and returns with stories of wild riders who sweep her away into the dark. Her parents are mortified (as is probably right) and seek to cure their daughter of her hallucinations. But is she telling the truth? Dark, mysterious, deadly the twilight world of Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch is a place of nightmares and superstition, where strange, unseen forces are constantly at work. Disturbing and often shocking, these hunting tales are set in shadowy regions where fantasy and reality merge, where the boundaries between good and evil begin to disappear, and where people who dabble in the supernatural get much more than their fingers burned This new edition of Dorothy K. Haynes award-wining collection of short stories includes a selection from the very best of her later work, plus the original illustrations drawn by Mervyn Peake for the first edition. Mervin Peakes surrealist drawings bring out perfectly the timeless horror and the cunning twists of plot that permeate all of Dorothy Haynes work Trevor Royle