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The Passionate Witch (Horror and Fantasy Classics)
About this book
This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Passionate Witch' was James Thorne Smith Jr.'s last novel and was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1934, it was finally finished by Norman Matson. Mr. T. Wallace Wooly is a rich, sober, upstanding member of the community who lives a calm, frugal life after the death of his wife. This comfortable existence is ruined by a meeting with Jennifer Broome, Wooly is spellbound to the mysterious women with " a great glory of lustrous dark hair....and a mouth curved in a short cat like smile" and gravity defying cloths. What follows is a whirlwind romance, a string of disastrous 'accidents' and the uttering of a fateful curse.
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Print ISBN
9781447472520
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Thorne Smith
- Contents
- I. Rendezvous in the Ladies’ Room
- II. Out of the Frying-Pan
- III. Mr Wooly Crawls into Bed
- IV. Jennifer
- V. Hell Breaks Loose, At Last
- VI. The Strumpet Vine
- VII. Brief Love Nest
- VIII. Mr Wooly Learns All, or Almost
- IX. Mr Wooly Takes the Defensive
- X. They Let Anybody Live in Miami
- XI. Cross Marks the Spot
- XII. The Happy Undertaker is Shocked
- XIII. The Antidote
- XIV. The Haunted Horse
- XV. The Flapping Woo-Hoos and Their Cure
- XVI. Conference Belowstairs
- XVII. Love’s Ambassador
- XVIII. The Old Adam in Madam
- XIX. The Trial before Judge Bert Gilead
- XX. Plea to a Horse
- XXI. —And Now, in Conclusion