Orem Library

The writer's New England heritage is well represented in 72 short stories of keen psychological insight.

Retellings of short tales of people's encounters with the unknown.

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne's follow-up to The Scarlet Letter, tells the story of an evil house that is haunted by the ghosts of its past and wrapped in the fear of the living.

A retelling of classical Greek myths.

A retelling of classical Greek myths.

Hawthorne's tale about the brooding hold of the past over the present is a complex one, twisting and turning its way back through many generations of a venerable New England family, one of whose members was accused of witchcraft in 17th century Salem. More than 200 years later, we meet the family in its decaying, gabled mansion, still haunted by the presence of dead ancestors: Hepzibah, an elderly gentlewoman fallen on had times; her ineffectual brother,...

Hearing of his wife's adultery and illegitimate child, Chillingworth's mind snaps. He takes his revenge on his victims by drugging them and subjecting them to bizarre medical treatments.