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The Witching Hour Study Guide

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by Anne Rice
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Literary Precedents

Stories of witches can be found in the Bible (the Witch of Endor), Shakespeare (in Macbeth, c.1600), Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and even Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953). Supernatural occurrences have served fiction in such works as Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, and Goethe's Faust (1790) develops the theme of the.....

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The Witching Hour from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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