Review of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1890)
James George Frazer (writer).
I believe the edition I read was a Wordsworth Reference paperback, just the first volume (about 400 pages) and certainly abridged.
References here: 1 Samuel (ca. 620–500 BCE), “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926), “Operation of the Laws of Sympathetic Magic in Disgust and Other Domains” (1986), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011).