Yankee Witches: 15 Short Stories of Horror and Humor - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912769327 ISBN 13: 9780912769325

Publisher: Rodale Pr, 1992

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From Publishers Weekly

The editors of Civil War Women present an anthology about witchcraft in New England. Surprisingly, the five tales set in the midst of 18th century "witch fever" are the least interesting, perhaps because their authors are at pains to depict the vindictiveness, hysteria and other questionable motives behind the accusations. Two masters of short fiction appear: Edith Wharton's "All Souls' " is suffused with Jamesian ambiguity about what is real and what imagined; and John Cheever's "The Music Teacher" is a chilling story of a husband who stumbles casually on a witch who helps him control his wife's passive aggression. Light-hearted pieces display the American tendency to fit even the mysterious powers of the supernatural into a familiar context: Ogden Nash's wicked work of schoolgirl cruelty, "The Three D's"; Patricia B. Circone's tale of a reluctant modern-day witch who's "Just Another Working Mom"; Alice Morse Earle's hilarious story of rural superstition, "The Witch Sheep"; and Stephen Rynas's offbeat "The Apprentice Sorcerer," about a man who uses Yankee ingenuity to defeat a wizard who claims prior rights to his witch-bride's hand.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rodale Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0912769327
• ISBN 13: 9780912769325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Frank D. McSherry Jr.
• Illustrator: Peter Farrow