About the book: 2004 / In a small Essex town in the 17th century, the gloomy inquisitor Matthew Hopkins pursued and mercilessly destroyed “witches.” Three centuries have passed, but the spirit of the “witch hunter” still wanders the earth, possessed by an unfulfilled passion to continue his “mission.” The creative team arrives in the town to shoot a film, and almost immediately strange, ominous events begin to happen here, and the main characters, completely modern and sensible people, find themselves as toys in the hands of otherworldly forces that have shrouded the entire area in a black fog....