Dark, mysterious, deadly—the twilight world of Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch is a place of nightmares and superstition, where strange, unseen forces are constantly at work. Disturbing and often shocking, these haunting tales are set in shadowy regions where fantasy and reality merge, where the boundaries between good and evil begin to disappear, and where people who dabble in the supernatural get much more than their fingers burned…
This new edition of Dorothy K. Haynes’ award-wining collection of short stories includes a selection from the very best of her later work, plus the original illustrations drawn by Mervyn Peake for the first edition.

‘Mervin Peake’s surrealist drawings bring out perfectly the timeless horror and the cunning twists of plot that permeate all of Dorothy Haynes’ work’ Trevor Royle