A tale of an evil house, cursed through the centuries by a manwho was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by ghosts of its dead andthe terror of its living. Nathanial Hawthorne's works are imbuedwith a mixture of actual and imaginary and this is an enduringexample. The puritanical Jaffrey Pyncheon is the embodiment ofHawthorne's own ancestor, a judge at the Salem witch trials.
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