It all starts with a woman in a tree. The graphic novel Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock follows teenage Sailor and her parents, the Rooks, as they move to a new town in rural New Hampshire. But rumors about Sailor are already flying all over town. “Did she really kill that girl?” But the horrors that drove the Rooks from their prior home are feeble in comparison to the fresh horrors awaiting them in their new home. Wytches haunt the woods, kidnapping and killing anyone who is “pledged”— a deal made between another human and a wytch, granting the human a wish in exchange for a life. Young Sailor finds herself pledged and can’t escape the nightmare she witnessed in the last town: her bully attempting to kill her, then being sucked into a tree. Can Sailor evade the wytches clutches? Will her father step up as the hero she needs him to be? What betrayals are in store for their family? Tender and terrifying, Wytches is about being anxious and afraid, yet forced to be brave, failings in parenthood, alcoholism, the violence of greed, accidents changing our lives, and father-daughter relationships.

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