/lit/ - Literature

Very smart and sadistic woman living in 1692 begins holding a set of large exotic animals at home so that when she decides to die she would starve them for weeks and then let them eat her alive. A group of women find her stash of animals and she spends the rest of the novel indirectly killing them off one by one while blackmailing some of them and having a handful of them burn at the stake by accusing them of being witches. In the end most of the town is in shambles with only a small handful of the original town goers left. She realizes she forgot why she wanted to die in the first place and (What should she do with the animals /lit/?)