Do you like Jane Austen enough (or not enough) to enjoy parodies and retellings? Did you like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Well maybe, just maybe, you’ll enjoy Melinda Taub’s The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch. The story tries to bring justice to Lydia Bennet, the youngest of Pride and Prejudice‘s Bennet sisters, while she has to deal with her sister Kitty (who’s actually a barn cat), Mr. Wickham (who’s actually a demon) and Mr. Darcy (who reacts to witchcraft the way you’d expect). Described as “Pride and Prejudice” meets “Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell”, only with more witches.

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Werewolves Wednesday: The Wolf-Leader (21)
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XXI: The Genius of Evil The next evening, about nine o’clock, a man might be seen walking along the Puits-Sarrasin road and making for for the Osieres forest-path. It was Thibault, on his way to pay a last
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