The Witch Series

Hi Phyllis, I remember reading your Witch Water, et.al. series as a child. I know it has been many many years but I still remember them so vividly. I was wondering in what year you first published the series. Thanks!

1977.  I’m glad you remember them.  Actually, a lot of people still do.  As I remember, I just got a hankering to write something completely different–something really scary, and I thought about the most frightening dream I’d ever had:  it was that my dear, sweet mother had her legs cut off at the knees and she was chasing me through the house on these bloody stumps.  I was crying and screaming for her to stop, but when I turned to look back on her, she had the face of a terrible witch.

I decided that the most scary thing that can happen is for the person you love and trust the most to be the person who will do you in.  So this became the basis for the story.  The “kind” woman who is left to take care of the children is….     Strange things happen, but only the girls suspect…  There were six books–witch’s sister, witch water, the witch herself, witch’s eye, witch weed,  and the witch returns.  I’m so glad you enjoyed them.