Hex
"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated by being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers, decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past."--Jacket.
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Black Spring is bound by a centuries-old witch with her eyes and mouth sewn shut. The town hides her with apps and bylaws. When the local teenagers start trying to lift her stitches, things go very wrong.
Yes. Hex is widely considered one of the most genuinely unsettling horror novels of recent decades. It centers on a small Hudson Valley town haunted by a 17th-century witch with sewn-shut eyes and mouth, whose presence the townspeople hide from the outside world.
Yes. Hex was originally published in Dutch in 2013 and was extensively rewritten by Thomas Olde Heuvelt for the 2016 English edition, including changing the setting from the Netherlands to upstate New York.
Hex was written by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, published in 2016 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
Hex is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Hex takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Hex is a standalone novel by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, not part of a series.
Hex is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
