In 1701, a real doctor named John Friend published a curious account in a scientific journal. The year before, he wrote, a rumor spread that a group of girls in the Oxfordshire countryside, west of ...
Something is rotten in the village of Little Nettlebed. There isn’t enough rain. A sturgeon of ungodly proportions has been beached on the bank of the Thames. Worse, five sisters have tried to save ...
Want to get drawn into a book from the very first words? Here's Xenobe Purvis reading the opening of her novel, "The Hounding." XENOBE PURVIS: (Reading) The girls, the infernal heat, a fresh dead body ...