This slice of life tale barely leaves four square blocks, but what’s happening to those affected, those feeling the impact of social imbalance, is happening all across America.

This fear and anxiety that Katrell and others experience, and that has manifested on our streets and in our neighborhoods is real. What’s great about Bad Witch Burning is it uses nuance and subtext, yes, and horror, to broad stroke larger themes as horror often does. Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it’s too late. The further she goes, the more she risks the lives of not only herself, but those she loves. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go.īut magic doesn’t come for free, and soon dark forces are closing in on Katrell. However, when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. What do ghosts know about eating peanut butter for dinner? Things get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summonings or she’ll “burn everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff, though. Clients pay her to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Katrell doesn’t mind talking to the dead she just wishes it made more money. On this episode of Everything is Canon, Steve talks to Jessica Lewis all about her debut YA novel, Bad Witch Burning, which is described as “ For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.”

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