Mosses From An Old Manse and Other Stories

by Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1974

In the shadow of a Puritan meetinghouse, Hawthorne weaves a tapestry of dark fables. From a sorcerer's curse to a baseball-playing Satanist, these stories peel back the veneer of New England respectability to reveal the twisted roots beneath. Prepare to be enthralled - and disturbed - by the master of American gothic.

Genres: classic-literature, literary-fiction, american-fiction, american, horror, 19th-century, gothic, dark

Vibes: atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking

Tropes: dark-academia, unreliable-narrator

Setting: India, Italy, Massachusetts, New England, Padua, Salem Village, University of Padua

Period: 1600s

186 pages · Paperback

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