Puritan Passions (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Can a creature of straw and vanity truly possess a human heart?

In a lonely, smoke-filled hovel in Puritan New England, the witch Mother Rigby decides to play a wicked trick on society. Using a pumpkin for a head, a tattered suit of clothes, and a plume of feathertop grass for flair, she fashions a magnificent scarecrow. Then, with a puff of her enchanted tobacco pipe, she brings the handsome figure to life.

Named "Lord Feathertop," the enchanted creature is sent into the nearby village to wo...