It was very strange reading this as an adolescent girl. It obviously plays into deep male suspicions, but of course every woman who reads it will reject the basic premise right away -- No, of course we're not witches. It was obvious to me from the beginning that this wasn't written for me -- or for half the human race, for that matter. (And I really liked Leiber then, and still sort of do.)

Are you going to try Our Lady of Darkness? The racism fairy has been at that one with a vengeance.