The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The past is never truly buried; it is just waiting behind the walls.”
In a decaying Salem mansion built on the bones of a curse, the Pyncheon family finds that the sins of their ancestors are more than just memories. This atmospheric gothic masterpiece explores a household where secrets whisper from the walls and the weight of the past threatens to consume the living.
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