Cold spring 1699, North American colony of Carolina. Magistrate Isaac Woodward and his secretary Matthew Corbett travel from the capital's Charles Town to the town of Fountain Royal, where some kind of devilry is happening: the earth will not give birth, houses are burning at night, and there are also two brutal murders. The townspeople blame the young widow Rachel Howarth for everything and strive to quickly burn the witch at the stake, but the head of the settlement, Robert Bidwell, wants everything to be according to the law. For the justice of the peace, the testimony of the witnesses sounds quite convincing, but his secretary hesitates: is the girl really a witch and why do the townspeople have so many skeletons in their closets? And is it all due to the devil’s machinations, or the devilishly cunning plan of an unknown criminal?.. “The Call of the Night Bird” is one of those unique works of popular literature that, without sacrificing entertainment for a moment, contains a lot of food for the mind. And now I can’t wait for the night bird to call me too” (Stephen King). The novel is published in a new translation.