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.
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