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Thank you LoveReading UK for the very kind review!

"Hauntingly captivating, The Witch, the Seed, and the Scalpel carves its way into being, shaking thoughts and feelings out into freefall."

https://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/97...

The Witch, The Seed & The Scalpel will be released into the wild this week! Available from May 1st on paperback and ebook. Published by McNidder & Grace. Follow me on Instagram: @scottoneill.fiction

The Witch, The Seed & The Scalpel can be seen as a homage to those great 19th century stories by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Hogg, Mary Shelley; stories full of fogbound alleyways, decrepit cemeteries and creaky old country houses where all manner of supernatural forces plied their unholy trades. And Edinburgh, as it was in 1841, is the ideal setting for such a story. A time when, from the crawling shadows of the Old Town to the respectable sheen of the New, the city's streets hid many a dark secret.

A new gothic horror by Scott O'Neill out 1st May 2025.
Edinburgh 1841. Every autumn without fail, a strange seed appears on the tree that marks the spot where the witch Margaret McKay was murdered. Legend states that anyone who catches this seed before it hits the ground will be blessed with untold riches, but when it falls into the eager hands of botanist Joseph Ware, the seed unleashes a devastating curse. In his quest to find the cure, Joseph discovers a resistance group battling to save the last of Scotland's witches from a sinister order of surgeons who believe the key to all magic lies hidden within a witch's anatomy. The conflict quickly tears apart the bonds of family, friendship and even reality itself, as Joseph fights to save his soul and avoid the anatomists' dissecting table.
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