“Books. That’s what started the whole apocalypse.”

123. Witchery Hill – Welwyn Wilton Katz

Mike is on vacation with his dad on the island of Guernsey and they’re staying with his dad’s friend Dr. Tony, Tony’s daughter Lisa, and the stepmom Lisa hates, Janine, who is more than just a stepmonster, she’s definitely a witch according to Lisa. Their house has a nice back up to the hill upon which a prehistoric tomb sits which is also the perfect place for sabbats. Lisa is a pretty angry kid and she really wants to get rid of Janine and prove her to be a witch by staking out the sabbats and dismissing nearly everything Mike says as not listening to her or him not being worthy of the knowledge. That becomes ironic when they go to this old dude that’s into the occult’s giant mansion and find his secret room of books.

There’s a book that apparently makes someone head of the coven because it gives the owner so much power and knowledge. But of course he’s not admitting he’s head of the coven and he also has a collection of poisonous and useful for advancing the plot plants. So he has to die and that causes both Dr. Tony, who is there when he’s dying, to go a little bit sick/insane and Janine to become way more secretive and sneaky…because she’s got to be vying for head of the coven with that dude’s heir as her competition. Who can harvest all the book power the fastest? Mike tries to help Lisa figure things out when she’s not fretting over her father or telling him how he’s basically useless and he does put together a pretty interesting set of plans and activities. Overall this was a pretty entertaining story and I really enjoyed the explanation of why the book was so hard to lay hands on.

 

Snuffy has her own very important objects which are hard to lay hands on. They don’t exactly drive her insane though.

 

Also a sacred object, even if not a book and technically imaginary, Produce Madness.
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