Merritt's Burn Witch Burn does have a similarity to the movie that stole its title (except for the addition of commas) - at the heart of the matter is a man who is forced to reassess his beliefs in the certainties of science when he runs head first into the supernatural. So expect to see a post about Conjure Wife here shortly, since I couldn't settle down until I'd bought a copy. There's nothing like feeling like a dunce for not doing my homework. So I look at the DVD cover and discover to my horror that the movie was actually based on Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife, and not on the book by Abraham Merritt. Zee joke, eet was on me - I started watching it and maybe five minutes in started wondering why the first scene was filled with people playing bridge at a home in England somewhere. The old horror classic "Burn, Witch, Burn" was recently released on blu-ray, so I figured that I'd read the book before watching the film.
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