The Wicca Woman by David Pinner

The Wicca Woman is the explosive sequel. to "Ritual" which was was the inspiration for the towering cult-movie, The Wicker Man. "Ritual" was set in a Cornish village in 1957, and "The Wicca Woman" takes place in the same Cornish village 32 years later. The village children, in "Ritual", who were ‘the light in the growing occult-darkness’, have now become as disturbed, frenzied, and often as dangerous, as their deceased parents. The novel opens on a momentous Midsummer Day in 1999. Into the village comes the lithesome, Lulu, who may or may not be a man-destroying Succubus, and death, mayhem and terror follow in her wake. So naturally – or unnaturally - on Millennium Eve, The Wicca Woman comes to its ritualistic and sacrificial climax. But is this only the horrific beginning of what is yet to come…? ‘David Pinner is the father of ‘Folk Horror’; his novel, Ritual, published 50 years ago, introduces the theme of the Puritan outsider encountering a rural cult and their rites, ushering in the age of Folk Horror films.’ Dr David Annwn Jones.