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Cover art: Milton Charles
Blurb: “Norah Lofts, historian and best-selling novelist, displays her versatility in this startling study of evil, originally published in 1960 under the title The Devil's Own, bearing the pseudonym Peter Curtis.
It was too good to be true...
The position Canon Morby offered
Deborah Mayfield as head mistress in his private school included a generous salary, a lovely cottage and even a cat.
After twenty years as a missionary in Africa and several unpleasant years in a public school near London, it seemed that Miss Mayfield had finally found a place to settle. It was too good to be true..•
The serenity of Walwyk, a pictur-esque, out-of-the-way English village,
masked a monstrous secret. As Miss Mayfield uncovered it, bit by bit, she was not certain of what it was that terrified her - until she found a grotesque wax doll in one of the student's desks...
This is a chilling tale-not of the refined fictional witcheraft practiced in New York brownstones-but of the black demon worship that haunts the fog shrouded moors and secluded woodland glens of the British Isles.“