- Hardcover: 231 pages
- Publisher: Vhps Trade (Dec 15 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312026722
- ISBN-13: 978-0312026721
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
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Gregory excels at fierce little novels about city men who move to the country, and discover, to their growing horror, how Nature can act as a mirror for a primitive unmanageable maleness they have never confronted before. This powerfully sensual tale is about a solicitor's clerk who tries to exile himself from his inner violence by fleeing to a tiny cottage in the woods of Welsh Snowdonia. He becomes obsessed with the woodwitch (a fungus shaped like a penis), then with various dead and/or disturbing animals that appear to him, and finally, with the depths of his own sexuality.
From Publishers Weekly
The Woodwitch relates a chilling episode in the life of Andrew Pinkney, a young English lawyer who wants to redeem himself from sexual humiliation. While the ensuing events are often lyrical, more frequently they're macabre. Pinkney is given the run of a deep-woods bungalow in Wales by his boss (who hopes he'll somehow get his wits back), and it's there that he stumbles onto budding fungi he believes will help him bud as well. They're six-inch "stinkhorns," and they haunt him with the power he ascribes them. The plan this not-so-gentle giant devises for his redemption is not for gossamer sensibilities, however, and Pinkney himself is a barely likable lummox. But Gregory writes with the hypnotic power of Poe, and this second novel has chilling implications.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
For strong stomachs, Oct 5 2003
By frk040 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Woodwitch (Hardcover)
This is a very strange book, about a fellow that has a bit of a sexual problem (Hint: The story takes place before the age of Viagra). He somehow thinks the way to solve this problem is to grow phallic shaped mushrooms. In order to grow these mushrooms, one needs a supply of maggots. In case you have not guessed yet, maggots come from dead things. This is the only book I have ever read that made me sick to my stomach. That alone deserves 5 stars, but it also is a very different and interesting read. Not for the faint of heart.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Creepy read from an undervalued author., Jan 4 2011
By MATT SVEDVA - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Woodwitch (Hardcover)
After reading 'the Cormorant', I decided to give this book a shot. In part, simply because I had to know how you write a horror book around erectile dysfunction.At any rate, Gregory is a quality writer and does well to suck the reader into fictional space. Gregory pulls off the events with compassion and precision.
Fans of his earlier work will appreciate this book. The author has sharpened the skills that made 'The Cormorant' so memorable. I strongly recommend this to fans of gothic horror.
2.0 out of 5 stars
i get it already, Feb 22 2009
By Nicole M. Persson "bookwhore" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Woodwitch (Hardcover)
i usually like most books i read but i just can't get on board with this one. I get the fact that the mushroom is supposed to be phallic but can we go two sentences without referring to it as a pulsing erection? find another adjective, jeez. the motivation of the main character doesn't make much sense to me either. his whole purpose is to grow the stinkhorn by collecting dead animals and harvesting flies so he can show it to some woman he punched in the face and make her like him again? that's what the whole book is about. it's pretty stupid. also a little nauseating. I can't sympathize with andrew at all; he's violent with his dog, he tries to screw a teenager, and he thinks that by showing jennifer some stinky fungus she's already shown blatant distaste for, he'll somehow be forgiven for hitting her. um? really? i think there should be some capacity for empathy for the main character but i really just hate him and i don't think that was the intention of the author. i don't mind graphic imagery as a general rule but the prose in this book is pretty disgusting and not in a good way.
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