Description
In early-20th-century Princeton, a young bride, Annabel Slade, vanishes from her own wedding under circumstances that invite competing stories—abduction, seduction, or something far stranger. As the town’s elite reels, M.W. van Dyck II, a meticulous historian obsessed with the “Crosswicks Curse,” tries to assemble the truth from fragments of history, rumor, and haunting dreams. What begins as a mystery of disappearance expands into a sweeping, unsettling portrait of a community where the supernatural—vampires, ghosts, and demonic allure—feeds on desire, secrecy, and inherited dread. Joyce Carol Oates blends gothic atmosphere with psychological intensity, using monsters not merely to frighten, but to illuminate how violence, longing, and belief can turn a society’s past into a living curse.
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hardcover
Ecco
Published Jan 1, 2013
669 pages
ISBN: 9780062231703
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
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