Nathaniel Hawthorne ~5 hr read

In a grim old house beside a graveyard, an eccentric doctor keeps a monstrous pet spider, and a secret that reaches back across the sea to England.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's posthumous 1882 romance is a dark, unfinished Gothic of ancestral curses, buried mysteries, and New England gloom, from the author of 'The Scarlet Letter.' Brooding, atmospheric, richly written. Read it for late Hawthorne at his most shadowy, steeped in the weight of the past.

In its time

Published in 1882, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).