Who wrote the book The Witches?
"just for Anjelica Huston's obvious delight in playing a completely uncompromised villainess."" However, Roald Dahl himself regarded the film as ""utterly appalling"" because of the ending that contrasted with his book. The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the 1983 children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl, directed by Nicolas Roeg and stars Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. As in the original novel, the story features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and kill children, and a boy and his grandmother need to find"
"and now they must do everything to stop it and defeat the witches. ""The Witches"" was originally published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape in London, with illustrations by Quentin Blake (like many of Dahl's works). The book was adapted into an unabridged audio reading by Lynn Redgrave (), a stage play and a two-part radio dramatisation for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. A seven-year-old British boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a"
"Witches (anthology) Witches is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of witches edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the second volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in April 1984. It was later gathered together with ""Wizards"", the first book in the series, into the omnibus hardcover collection ""Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards"" (1985). The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors,"
"The Witcher The Witcher (, ), by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, is a fantasy series of short stories and novels about the witcher Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's books, ""witchers"" are monster hunters who (with training and body modification) develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle deadly beasts. The books have been adapted into a film, a television series, video games, and a graphic novel series. The series of novels is known as the Witcher Saga. The short stories and novels have been translated into numerous languages, including English. The books have been described as having a cult"
"The Witches (1967 film) The Witches (Italian: ""Le streghe"") is a 1967 comedy anthology film produced by Dino De Laurentiis in 1965. It consists of 5 short stories, directed by Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mauro Bolognini and Vittorio De Sica. Each story is about witches and features Silvana Mangano. This is one of De Laurentiis' more eclectic films. Clint Eastwood also makes an appearance in the final story. A famous actress arrives in an Austrian chalet to spend an evening with friends. The woman is gotten drunk by the guests, and when she falls unconscious, friends remove"
"Witches (Marvel Comics) Witches is a supernatural comic book limited series that was published by Marvel Comics in 2004. Plotted by Bronwyn Carlton, with scripts by Brian Walsh, it featured art by Mike Deodato and Will Conrad. Marvel Comics originally green-lit this storyline in late 2000 and released promotional art for the series in 2001 at both Comic-Con International (""Marvel: 2001 Official Convention Preview Book"", pages 18–19) and various comic book based websites. According to those original website advertisements, Marvel had planned on releasing the series (then titled ""The Way of the Witches"") during the last week of September 2001."
"The Witches (1966 film) The Witches (US: ""The Devil's Own"") is a 1966 British horror film made by Hammer Films. It was adapted by Nigel Kneale from the novel ""The Devil's Own"" by Norah Lofts, published under the pseudonym Peter Curtis. It was directed by Cyril Frankel and starred Joan Fontaine (in her final feature-film performance), Alec McCowen, Kay Walsh, Ann Bell, Ingrid Boulting (billed as Ingrid Brett) and Gwen Ffrangcon Davies. The film opens with an English schoolteacher, Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine), packing up her belongings at a mission school in colonial Africa. The local witch doctors have led"
"The Witch (play) The Witch is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton. The play was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. It is thought to have been written between 1613 and 1616; it was not printed in its own era, and existed only in manuscript until it was published by Isaac Reed in 1778. The still-extant manuscript (since 1821, ""MS. Malone 12"" in the collection of the Bodleian Library), a small quarto-sized bundle of 48 leaves, is in the hand of Ralph Crane, the professional scribe who worked for the King's Men in this"
"with an introduction by Asimov. Witches (anthology) Witches is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of witches edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the second volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in April 1984. It was later gathered together with ""Wizards"", the first book in the series, into the omnibus hardcover collection ""Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards"" (1985). The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various"
"The Witch (short story) ""The Witch"" () is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov. On the origins of the story, Chekhov's brother Mikhail wrote in his 1923 memoirs: ""There was, [not far from Babkino], by the Daragan Forest, a lonely Polevshcinskaya church which had always intrigued [Chekhov]. They had the service in it only once a year, and in the night time one could hear its bell, marking the hours. It was this small church with its watchman's hut by the post road, that had given apparently Chekhov the ideas for his stories 'The Witch' and 'A Bad Business'."""
"ultimately disappoints as Hammer horror."" As of 2018, ""The Witches"" currently holds a three star rating (5.9/10) on IMDb and 50% maximum approval on Rotten Tomatoes. The Witches (1966 film) The Witches (US: ""The Devil's Own"") is a 1966 British horror film made by Hammer Films. It was adapted by Nigel Kneale from the novel ""The Devil's Own"" by Norah Lofts, published under the pseudonym Peter Curtis. It was directed by Cyril Frankel and starred Joan Fontaine (in her final feature-film performance), Alec McCowen, Kay Walsh, Ann Bell, Ingrid Boulting (billed as Ingrid Brett) and Gwen Ffrangcon Davies. The film"
"The Lancashire Witches The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its first publication. It was serialised in the ""Sunday Times"" newspaper in 1848; a book edition appeared the following year, published by Henry Colburn. The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work. E. F. Bleiler rated the novel as ""one of the major English novels about witchcraft"". The subject"
"The Witch Hunters (novel) The Witch Hunters is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan. This book was republished in 2015 by BBC Books as part of the History Collection. With the Doctor wanting to repair the TARDIS in peace and quiet, Barbara, Ian and Susan decide to get some experience of living in the nearby village of Salem. But the Doctor knows about the horrors destined to engulf the village and determines that they should leave."
"According to Chekhov's 28 March 1886 letter to Dmitry Grigorovich, he wrote ""The Witch"" in the course of one day. ""The Witch"" was first published on 8 March 1886 by ""Novoye Vremya"" (Issue No. 3600). It made its way into the 1887 collection ""In Twilight"" (В сумерках), to be reproduced, unchanged, in all its 13 editions (1888–1899). While revising the story for it, Chekhov omitted some details which many of his correspondents referred to as exceedingly naturalistic. He returned to the original version while preparing the text for the Volume 3 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in"
"Twitches (novel series) T*Witches is an American children's fantasy novel series by H. B. Gilmour and Randi Reisfeld published between 2001 and 2004. The cover art and design is by David Loew and Joyce White. The books were published by Scholastic Press, a subsidiary of the Scholastic Corporation, who also published the British Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling and the Canadian Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Disney Channel produced two television film adaptations in 2005 and 2007 based on the first book, ""The Power of Two"". The 10-book series focuses on long lost twin"
"in physical and digital forms. The digital version is available on Windows, OS X, Android and iOS. The Witcher The Witcher (, ), by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, is a fantasy series of short stories and novels about the witcher Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's books, ""witchers"" are monster hunters who (with training and body modification) develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle deadly beasts. The books have been adapted into a film, a television series, video games, and a graphic novel series. The series of novels is known as the Witcher Saga. The short stories and novels"
"Three Witches The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters or Wayward Sisters, are characters in William Shakespeare's play ""Macbeth"" (c. 1603–1607). They hold a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology, and are, perhaps, intended as a twisted version of the white-robed incarnations of destiny. The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise. Their origin lies in ""Holinshed's Chronicles"" (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources, aside from Shakespeare's imagination, include British folklore, such contemporary treatises on witchcraft as King James VI of Scotland's ""Daemonologie"", the Norns of Norse mythology, and ancient"
"to the house and uses her power to return Luke to his human body and return his pet mice, along with his glasses, before leaving to repeat the process with Bruno. ""The Witches"" was adapted from the children's book of the same title by British author Roald Dahl. It was the final film that Jim Henson personally worked on before his death, the final theatrical film produced by Lorimar Productions, and the last film made based on Dahl's material before his death (both Henson and Dahl died that year). The following people did special puppeteer work in this film: Anthony"
"Jones as the Narrator, Ryan Watson as the Boy, Jordan Clarke as Bruno and Amanda Laurence as the Grand High Witch. The book was adapted into an opera by Norwegian composer Marcus Paus and his father Ole Paus, who wrote the libretto. It premiered in 2008. On 29 September 2017, it was announced by Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail that a stage musical adaptation is in development, and is expected to premiere at the National Theatre, London for Christmas 2018. The musical will be directed by Lyndsey Turner and feature a score by James Humphreys. The Witches (novel) The"
"Andrzej Sapkowski Andrzej Sapkowski (; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his book series, ""The Witcher"". His books have been translated into about 20 languages. In an interview he said that being a businessman at the time and thus familiar with marketing, he knew how to sell, and indeed, he won the 3rd prize. The story was published in ""Fantastyka"" in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of ""The Witcher"", comprising three collections of short stories and"
"promises to refrain from drinking out of the skull goblet in the future. The play ends on a note of festivity and redemption. The Witch (play) The Witch is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton. The play was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. It is thought to have been written between 1613 and 1616; it was not printed in its own era, and existed only in manuscript until it was published by Isaac Reed in 1778. The still-extant manuscript (since 1821, ""MS. Malone 12"" in the collection of the Bodleian Library), a small"
"of Łódź. Andrzej Sapkowski Andrzej Sapkowski (; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his book series, ""The Witcher"". His books have been translated into about 20 languages. In an interview he said that being a businessman at the time and thus familiar with marketing, he knew how to sell, and indeed, he won the 3rd prize. The story was published in ""Fantastyka"" in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of ""The Witcher"", comprising three collections of short"
"Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899. It contains what he believed was the religious text of a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, Italy that documented their beliefs and rituals, although various historians and folklorists have disputed the existence of such a group. In the 20th century, the book was very influential in the development of the contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca. The text is a composite. Some of it is Leland's translation into English of"
"The Witch's Tales The Witch's Tales was an American pulp magazine edited by Tom Chadburn which published two issues in November and December 1936. It was a companion to a radio program, called ""The Witch's Tale"", which had begun broadcasting in May 1931. With the exception of the lead story in each issue, all the stories were reprints from the American edition of ""Pearson's Magazine"". Alonzo Deen Cole, who wrote the radio series, contributed one lead story, and provided the plot for the other. The authors of the reprint stories included George Daulton, Wardon Allan Curtis, William Hamilton Osborne, and"
"was later adapted for television. Dorothy Edwards Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her ""My Naughty Little Sister"" book series and novel ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1981). She was born on 6 November 1914 as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family in Teddington, Richmond Upon Thames. Her mother's maiden name was Saunders. Her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and"
"Dorothy Edwards Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her ""My Naughty Little Sister"" book series and novel ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1981). She was born on 6 November 1914 as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family in Teddington, Richmond Upon Thames. Her mother's maiden name was Saunders. Her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and at this time she married"
"Witch Week Witch Week is a children's fantasy novel and school story by the British writer Diana Wynne Jones, published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1982. It was the third published of seven Chrestomanci books. ""Witch Week"" is set during the last four days of October 1981 at Larwood House, a boarding school in southern England, in a world parallel and close to ours. Many people have magical powers (""witches"", male or female) but their use is a capital crime and convicted witches are burnt to death. The story begins with a teacher's discovery of an ambiguous note and dilemma"
"1862, French historian Jules Michelet published ""La Sorcière"" (""The Witch""), in which he adapted the theory further. Michelet, who was a liberal and who despised both the Roman Catholic Church and absolute monarchies, claimed that the Witch Cult had been practiced by the peasants in opposition to Roman Catholicism, which was practiced by the upper classes. He claimed that the witches had been mostly women (he greatly admired the feminine gender, once claiming that it was the superior of the two), and that they had been great healers, whose knowledge was the basis of much of modern medicine. He believed"
"The Witch of the Mists ""The Witch of the Mists"" is a fantasy short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the August 1972 issue of the magazine ""Fantastic"", and was first appeared in book form by Ace Books in the paperback collection ""Conan of Aquilonia"" in May 1977, which was reprinted several times through 1994. The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978. A decade and a half after the events"
"film when Clint Eastwood's career began to take off. United Artists decided not to release it in theaters but instead kept it in their library vault to prevent its viewing. The Witches (1967 film) The Witches (Italian: ""Le streghe"") is a 1967 comedy anthology film produced by Dino De Laurentiis in 1965. It consists of 5 short stories, directed by Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mauro Bolognini and Vittorio De Sica. Each story is about witches and features Silvana Mangano. This is one of De Laurentiis' more eclectic films. Clint Eastwood also makes an appearance in the final"
"resurrected, in the ""Hellstorm"" series (shown in issue #10, implied to have happened during the events of #8), leaving her second resurrection unexplained. The series has been collected into a trade paperback: Witches (Marvel Comics) Witches is a supernatural comic book limited series that was published by Marvel Comics in 2004. Plotted by Bronwyn Carlton, with scripts by Brian Walsh, it featured art by Mike Deodato and Will Conrad. Marvel Comics originally green-lit this storyline in late 2000 and released promotional art for the series in 2001 at both Comic-Con International (""Marvel: 2001 Official Convention Preview Book"", pages 18–19) and"
"graduate work in the field of library and information science. Mike Nichols (author) Mike Nichols (born 1952) is an American neo-Pagan leader and author of ""The Witches' Sabbats"" (Acorn Guild Press, 2005). Nichols taught Wicca for almost twenty years, from 1970 to 1989, in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, through the Communiversity and at his bookstore, ""The Magick Lantern"". He was the first Wiccan representative on the ""Kansas City Interfaith Council"". Nichols has been a featured speaker on several radio programs, including National Public Radio. He received his bachelor of arts from the University of Missouri, with a double major"
"later another petition was organised in an attempt to obtain pardons for Chattox and Demdike. It followed the Swiss government's pardon earlier that year of Anna Göldi, beheaded in 1782, thought to be the last person in Europe to be executed as a witch. William Harrison Ainsworth, a Victorian novelist considered in his day the equal of Dickens, wrote a romanticised account of the Pendle witches published in 1849. ""The Lancashire Witches"" is the only one of his 40 novels never to have been out of print. The British writer Robert Neill dramatised the events of 1612 in his novel"