Jonathan had told her not to fool with the master control panel while he was in the city, because she would wreck anything electrical, so when the secret panel came loose under her aimlessly questing fingers and fell to the solid rock floor of the patio with a musical twing her first reaction was fear.

Above the switches for the three dimensional TV but below those for the robot butler and maids. The secret panel was simply a narrow blank of aluminum-she'd thought of it as room for more switches if they ever needed any, perish the thought! - between the air-conditioning controls and the gravity controls. Mariana had been living in the big villa and hating the tall pine trees around it for what seemed like an eternity when she found the secret panel in the master control panel of the house. Yet another film remake is in the works.Ĭopyright: 1953 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9781497616547 Publisher: Open Road Media Date of Addition: 11/09/19 Copyrighted By: Fritz Leiber.Jonathan told her not to touch the switches, but it was cold and lonely and isolated. Originally published in 1953, Conjure Wife is considered a modern classic of horror-fantasy and has been adapted for film three times: Burn, Witch Burn (1962), Weird Woman (1944), and Witch's Brew (1980). Tansy takes his curse upon herself, forcing him to overcome his disbelief and use witchcraft to save his wife's body-and her soul.

He begins to imagine that there is a dark presence exploiting his fear of trucks. Norman begins to have more than his fair share of small accidents: cutting himself while shaving, stepping on carpet tacks, cutting his hand with a letter opener, and more. He has a run-in with a former student, his student secretary accuses him of having seduced her, and he is passed over for a promotion that seemed certain.

As soon as Norman burns the last charm, things start to fall apart. A man of science, Norman has only an academic interest in the subject of magic and superstition, and forces Tansy to cease all her workings and to burn all her charms. What if half the world's population (the female half) practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men? Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers that his wife, Tansy, has put his research in the field of 'Negro Conjure Magic' into practice for the sake of protecting him from other spell-casting faculty wives who wish to further their own husbands' careers.

Conjure wife by fritz leiber