So I’m making what’s probably best referred to as an ARG/scavenger hunt for a colleague, and I want one of the puzzles to be book related, and the human sacrifice thing is related to the ultimate conclusion of the scavenger hunt. The older the book the better, because I want to get hold of a really tatty second hand version
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It’s not overly old, but I’m sure they did a novelisation of *The Wickerman*. Likewise, there’s the novel for *Rosemary’s Baby* though that’s only suspected human sacrifice. Does that count ?
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There’s kind of a human sacrifice (actually a nonvoluntary suttee) attempted in {{Around the World in Eighty Days}}. >!The woman is saved by the heroes.!<
If you’re looking for old and tatty and ominous, you might do well with a volume of Frazer’s _The Golden Bough_, a delightfully antiquarian endeavour to prove all world mythology including Christ to be a retelling of the sun god’s death and rebirth.
Sergey Gorodetsky’s collection Yar has the poem [Yarila](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Russian_Poetry/Yarila) in it, so there’s a human sacrifice. From the 1900s, if you can find a copy.