Curses! Loads of historical hexes, and scads of vengeful witch doctors and sorcerers from Port-au-Prince to Kampala (and Jakarta besides). There's also some cursed artifacts such as a knife, a car, a wedding dress, and Kriegsmarine battleship Scharnhorst. Author Smith dips into the archives with some recycled werewolfery, and credits Brad Steiger interviewing a witchcraft victim. Smith and Steiger's psychic pal Doc Anderson makes a brief appearance, offering some marital advice and hints to achieve ESP.
Perhaps the most bizarre case presented is one that's hardly done justice at all with Smith's "hex" framing - the trial of Aldo Braibanti, the radical Italian intellectual accused of brainwashing youth into communist homosexuality! The political dimensions of the case are excised so as to present a "simple" case of occult mischief, with Smith casting Braibanti as a svengali and claiming that in Italy he's widely known as "the Stealer of Souls." Tawdry work on Smith's part.
Strange Hexes is available to read and download at archive dot org.
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