Witch Wood

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.

Originally published in 1927.

Public Domain (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

How Did I Miss This Book?

This should be a more widely known horror(?) novel. This novel is written by a skilled author and narrated by the person person.