“A brilliant book . . . “The Devils of Loudun” shows Huxley’s genius at its best: It’s his scientific, almost forensic and detailed approach that makes us feel the truth and horror of what happened long ago in France. — Los Angeles Times
“Huxley’s masterpiece and perhaps the most enjoyable book about spirituality ever written. In telling the grotesque, bawdy and true story of a 17th-century convent of cloistered French nuns who contrived to have a priest they never met burned alive as a warlock . . . Huxley painlessly conveys a wealth of information about mysticism and the unconscious.” — Washington Post Book World
“Here is the stuff that bizarre historical novels are made, but it is solidly based on fact and painstaking research. . . . This peak achievement of Huxley’s career reveals his sharp skill at characterization, his ability to recreate the smell and flavor of vanished eras. . . . A story that sounds like fiction but isn’t.” — New York Times
“One of the best books by Aldous Huxley, both as a writer and as a thinker.” — The Guardian (UK)
“Masterful” — London Times
“An exciting and indeed compelling social-psychological interpretation of one of the strangest occurrences in history.” — Sociology and Social Research