Ritual

Ritual is a folk horror novel by David Pinner, published in 1967. It inspired the 1973 movie The Wicker Man. It is still copyrighted.

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• Reading time: 5 to 6 hours
• Setting: In Thorn, a fictional village in Cornwall, UK, in 1967
• Premise: David Hanlin, a detective inspector for Scotland Yard, investigates the death of a little girl. People claim it was an accident, but the locals' strange behaviour makes David wonder. Was it an accident, or as he suspects, a ritualistic murder?