Jac Jemc is the author of the story collection False Bingo (2019) and the forthcoming novel Total Work of Art, both from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.Her previous books include A Different Bed Every Time, My Only Wife, and the bone-chilling haunted house novel The Grip of It.
At Publishers Weekly, Jemc tagged ten essential books featuring hauntings, including:
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird HuntRead about the other entries on the list.
As a longtime lover of Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, I find in this book the permission to enter into the complex female perspective denied us in that classic. This book is half fairy tale, half nightmare quest through colonial New England. If you’re a fan of the Robert Eggers film The Witch or deep diving on the Salem witch trials, this will do it for you.
My Book, The Movie: In the House in the Dark of the Woods.
The Page 69 Test: In the House in the Dark of the Woods.
--Marshal Zeringue
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