Night Witch

Once again, in his third horror story NIGHT WITCH, Jack Priest reaches deep into a culture most of us living in North America and Europe know little of, and brings forth a bad thing to stalk and terrorize innocents. In this story two children, through no fault of their own, run afoul of a soucouyant, the Southern Caribbean cousin of the vampire.

There are still those living today that fear the soucouyant. It’s said she lives in that abandoned house at the end of the road, that she comes out after the sun goes down, when the bats replace the birds on the trees. She sheds her skin, turns into a ball of fire as she flies into the dark, descending finally as a blood devouring animal, seeking out young prey. It’s also said that you can keep a soucouyant away from your door by dropping rice in front of it. She cannot enter without counting each and every grain and she’s too impatient to do that, so she moves on to seek a victim elsewhere.

But can you kill a soucouyant once she is on your trail? That’s the question young Carolina and her friend Arty have to find the answer to, because Carolina has something a soucouyant wants, but she doesn’t know it. She knows only that an evil old horror she calls the Night Witch is after her. And it appears that she and Arty are alone in their stand against it. However, unknown to her, her estranged father, who unwittingly set the beast on her, is doing his level best to draw the thing away.

Will he succeed? Can Carolina and Arty stay alive until he does? Or are the children going to have to deal with the Night Witch themselves.

NIGHT WITCH is a book full of tension and suspense, a horror thriller that we think will firmly plant young Jack Priest among the greats of the genre. And frankly, we think if you give it a try, you’ll come back for more.