Burn Witch Burn

About this book

The dolls are beautiful until they begin to move. A series of impossible deaths draws Dr Lowell towards a sinister toyshop and its proprietor, Madame Mandilip, whose little creations appear to carry an intelligence of their own.

A. Merritt mixes a murder mystery with curses, hypnotic influence and the fear of something harmless turning malevolent. The investigation moves from hospital wards to occult confrontations as the doctor's rational explanations begin to fail. Few objects make such effective instruments of horror as these carefully dressed miniature people, waiting motionless for their next command.