by Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne
First published 1977
In the shadows of New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne's characters confront ancient evils. A young man stumbles into a dark forest ritual. A scientist's quest for perfection spirals into obsession. Beneath the placid surface, Puritan towns conceal twisted human nature - and no one is safe from its corrupting influence. With chilling atmosphere and moral complexity, these stories reveal the fragility of the human soul.
Genres: classic-literature, american-fiction, horror, 19th-century, gothic, dark
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-ambiguity, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Massachusetts, New England, Salem Village
Period: 1600s
698 pages · Hardcover · The Viking Press