Olga Ravn's The Wax Child (Book*hug Press) reimagines the story of seventeenth-century Danish noblewoman Christenze Kruckow, accused of witchcraft, told through the haunting perspective of a wax doll she creates. Translated by Martin Aitken, this unsettling, dizzying horror story explores brutality and power, nature and witchcraft, set in the fragile communities of pre-modern Europe. Read an excerpt from the book, below.
