An accused witch is banished from her home in Portland, Maine. A young socialite in New Orleans dabbles in magic to get rid of a rival. An acrobat in a traveling circus learns her greatest enemy lives in the mirror. An Irish immigrant may have brought malevolent faeries with her to the New World. A lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest suspects a monster lurks behind the enormous trees. A Colorado gold miner finds himself trapped in the bowels of the earth, no matter how many times he tries to dig his way out. A psychiatrist in Chicago suffers from insomnia and loses track of where reality ends and his nightmares begin.
Written in the literary tradition of gothic horror,
The Witch: And Other Tales of the American Gothic
is a collection of strange occurrences in 19
th
century America. These seven stories provide a reflection of the country's growing pains during a time of transition and an exploration of the secrets that lurk in the shadows of the world we think we know.