In my new novella – The Malan Witch – the witches are a powerful, evil force to be
reckoned with. If you had been living anywhere near them, you would have been
glad you had walled up a dead cat, hidden away a written charm or two, a
horse’s skull and some (preferably children’s) shoes. As a cat lover of major
proportions, I was relieved to discover that the walled up cats I had read about
