Fritz Leiber 3 hr 38 min read

A skeptical sociology professor discovers that every faculty wife, including his own, quietly practices witchcraft, and that his wife has just stopped.

Fritz Leiber's 1943 novel is a landmark of modern horror, imagining witchcraft as the hidden engine of ordinary academic life and the deadly danger of disbelief. Tense, ingenious, hugely influential, it made the 'hidden magical war' a genre staple. Read it for one of the great horror novels, rational, terrifying, and utterly persuasive.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer