The Witch of Criswell
John Michael Greer
Sphinx Books 2023
Pb, 180pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781912573851
John Michael Greer’s name will be familiar to many FT readers as one of the foremost and most reliable writers on the occult. is a young adult novel about 18-year-old Ariel, who is sent to stay with her grandfather for the summer in Adocentyn, an American city with a statue of Elias Ashmole and an occult library, the Heydonian Institution. Intelligent and inquisitive, Ariel discovers that her grandfather is an occult investigator and becomes caught up in his investigation into what seems to start off as poltergeist activity at a nearby farm, but quickly becomes considerably more threatening. Could an 18th-century witch be working dark magic
