“The Hill of Samuel” by Alfred Yuson is a Palanca award winner (third place) in 1968 and is the top winner in the 1968 Free Press Literary Awards of the Philippines Free Press.

Synopsis:  Dignos, son of Samuel the Mistico, came back to where his father used to wield his influence–a sexual rite of great occultic proportions.  He looked for the hill where his father did his orders and he got to the place through the helpless acquiescence of an aunt.  He met his cousin Orlando and his betrothed, the virginal Lumen whose features Dignos instantly desired.  He went to prepare the place of the ritual and in no time he drove his mystical power to work laying aside the protestations of the males in the community and attracted with a magnetic devilish power all the women including Lumen who was to be the main dish for his lustful appetite.  Orlando, coming from a distant place from which he did a mystical form of healing, tried to catch up with the ongoing sexual ritual of his cousin for fear of losing Lumen but he was powerless to the already frenzied horde of hypnotized women.  The hill of Samuel had come alive again.

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