VINTAGE. Scarce! Isobel. Jane Parkhurst (Nancy Smith). Rowena Morrill Cover Art. Paperbacks hotsell From Hell! Witchcraft. Scotland. Horror. Satan!
Isobel. Jane Parkhurst (Nancy Smith). Jove / HBJ Book. 1977.
Published: [1977]. Jove Publications Inc. (New York, NY). First American Edition, December, 1977. 287 pages.
Condition: Good +. This is a vintage item in used condition. Signs of wear and minor creasing to front covers. Spine has heavy creasing. Rear cover features some scuffing and minor creasing. Book is slightly cocked. Minor indentation to small section of topedge. Interior is in overall very good condition with no cracked hinges or other weakness. Awesome Rowena Morrill cover art (slightly different from UK Edition, which features cropped version of artwork) with fantastic and erotic interior image.
Summary: "Radiant, innocent, her perfect oval face crowned by a glory of red-gold curls, Isobel left the Inverness convent a devout servant of God. Then - ravaged a shocked by a brutal marriage - she learned a new kind of devotion - to evil! And a sensuous devotion to the mysterious Frenchman who brought her ecstasy.
By day she was a model village wife. On moonlit nights - when the coven people called and her lover summoned - she rode in wild abandon to do demonic mischief. And even murder!"
Isobel is loosely based on the real life Isobel Gowdie, a woman who confessed to witchcraft hotsell in Scotland in 1662. Her detailed and lurid confessions were used in a trial to arrest and execute many in her village who she said were part of her coven, as well as members of other covens that were active around her village. Not much is known about her – the history records don't even make it clear whether or not she was executed – but she has been the inspiration for a few books and movies over the years. Isobel Gowdie never gave a reason for deciding to confess and face execution. Jane Parkhurst's book told what she said was the “most logical reason and what would provide the most sustained story.”
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