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July 20, 2008
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| The Witch by Mary Ann Mitchell | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: Medallion Press
http://www.MedallionPress.com
ISBN: 1932815813
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Horror
Release date: Feb 2007
Format: Mass Market
Pages: 350
Price: $6.99
| In life Cathy had been a very unhappy woman who didn’t get along with her mother and had been hurt when she discovered her husband was cheating on her with their teenage babysitter. During an episode of deep depression, she hanged herself in the basement; her son Stephen discovered his mother’s body. Cathy in life had been a practicing dark witch, and she had taught her son how to gain power so he could one day become a powerful warlock.
Stephen calls his mother back from beyond; upon her return she wants to live again if only to enact revenge on the people who had hurt her. On the table in the basement where she had practiced her craft, there is a box whose top is decorated with real demons. When Stephen’s blood is spilt and the demons drink it, they can be freed to enact her vengeance. Stephen does this, but people closest to him are badly injured and die as the demons carry out Cathy’s revenge. Stephen realizes that this can’t continue but he doesn’t know if he will be able to sever his last link to his mother and send her back to the hell she belongs in.
Readers who like to be scared out of their wits will thoroughly enjoy The Witch, a chilling horror thriller in which one shocker follows another. Mary Ann Mitchell is a talented horror author who uses interactions among her characters to tell a great haunting story. Readers will wonder how far Cathy will go after she achieves her quest. She also has a hidden agenda (with her offspring) to take over, by his “invitation”, Stephen’s heart & soul. | | |
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