The Witches' Sabbath - A Study of Witchcraft and Devil Worship in Europe Up to the Modern Age - Including a Section of Short Stories on Witchcraft

Centuries of belief in the midnight assembly of the witches, followed from its earliest traces to the modern imagination - and rounded off with a gathering of classic tales of the weird.

This volume studies witchcraft and devil-worship across Europe, tracing the evolving idea of the Sabbat from distant antiquity to the present day, before turning to a section of supernatural short stories. Among the storytellers are J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Sax Rohmer, and Robert Anthony, whose fiction carries the old dread into the age of print. The scholarly material draws established witch-lore from earlier authorities into an accessible survey.

This edition features:

• A survey of European witch-belief and devil-worship, tracing the Sabbat and its rites from ancient roots to the modern era.
• A companion section of weird short fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Sax Rohmer, Robert Anthony, and other hands.
• A mixed volume pairing serious occult scholarship with the imaginative literature it inspired, for reader and collector alike.