The Anointing

by Martha Mabey

Hiram Taylor, a country preacher filled with the Holy Spirit, meets his match in the snake-handling, charismatic Isaac Ledbetter, who leads his backwoods congregation into holy ecstasy through sex and poisonous serpents. In rural Mississippi, where rocks and trees are alive and angels ride the wind, the two men battle to the death in an on-going struggle between good and evil. And yet it is Hiram’s beautiful daughter, Moiria, who receives the real power, and with Scottie Helder, the boy she loves, does something that astonishes the men all around her.

Genres: Horror

Paperback

First published January 1, 1982