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The Witches
Roald Dahl

A children’s dark fantasy novel set in a world where societies of witches exist. Their goal is to hunt human children and make them disappear in mysterious ways, but a young boy and his Norwegian grandmother are determined to stop them.

· · 1983

Critical edition

Dahl, Roald; Blake, Quentin. The Witches. Puffin Books, 1983. 208 pp., ISBN 9780590032490

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