The Bewitching

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. ΓÇ£In Silvia Moreno-GarciaΓÇÖs sure hands,every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTananarive DueBram Stoker AwardΓÇôwinning author of The Reformatory ΓÇ£Back thenwhen I was a young womanthere were still witchesΓÇ¥: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter MinervaΓÇöstories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps thatΓÇÖs why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblayan obscure author of macabre tales. In the course of assembling her thesisMinerva uncovers information that reveals that TremblayΓÇÖs most famous novelThe Vanishingwas inspired by a true story: Decades earlierduring the Great DepressionTremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommatewho then disappeared under mysterious circumstances. As Minerva descends ever deeper into TremblayΓÇÖs manuscriptshe begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexicowhere she had a terrifying encounter with a witch. Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuitbut it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.