Bayou Witch and Silent Streets

In 1938, a sleepy commuter hamlet sits atop drained cypress where a voodoo priestess was buried. A late-night radio report by an itinerant newspaperman stirs half-forgotten rites; moss-stiffened hands claw from the mud and a witch returns. Garden-lawn respectability curdles into suspicion as neighbors bolt doors, trade gossip and whisper of G-men and secret cults. Strange telegrams and jittery rumors push the town toward hysteria—and toward the witch’s patient revenge. A pulpy, shadowed serial of occult revival and suburban paranoia, meant to be read under lamplight with the radio turned low.