I bought Witches' Night of Fear because after having read her first book. I do like Silver and her books for Wicca have been great. But this foray into non fiction is seriously lacking. For starters this is supposed to be for the teen set but Silver seems so out of touch with her readers for that to happen. Her characters, story line and use of phrases dates her back to a teen novel of maybe the 70's or 80's. "Mean machine"?? Nam for the name of a character sounds like it's an old Nancy Drew novel from the 50's. She has a great nack for her helpfull wiccan books but not as a novelist.