1643: In one of history’s most sensational cases of mass possession and sexual hysteria, Urbain Grandier, a handsome seducer of women, and priest of the parish of Loudon, was found guilty of being in league with the devil and burnt at the stake. Huxley gives a vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession.
Drama and history combine in this 17th century story of witchcraft and lust in a convent. "Fascinating, erudite and instilled with intellectual vitality." The Times Literary Supplement
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