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Bewitched

✍️ Edith Wharton
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🏛 Fantasy and Horror Classics 📅 2019 📖 32 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781528710688

📝 Description: Bewitched

A farmer in the remote Berkshires, is a man tormented. His aging, sickly wife, Mrs. Rutledge, believes she's being poisoned by a phantom rival: a dead woman named Ora. But the phantom is all too real.

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Rutledge’s delusion regarding Ora. While Wharton’s reputation ensures literary merit, the lack of specific plot details makes it hard to judge the pacing or supernatural mechanics. It appeals to fans of atmospheric, character-driven horror rather than those seeking fast-paced action or explicit scares. Readers expecting a traditional ghost story with clear rules may find the ambiguity frustrating. However, for connoisseurs of Gothic fiction who value mood and psychological realism over plot twists, this remains a worthy exploration of rural isolation and mental unraveling.
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Rutledge’s delusion regarding Ora. While Wharton’s reputation ensures literary merit, the lack of specific plot details makes it hard to judge the pacing or supernatural mechanics. It appeals to fans of atmospheric, character-driven horror rather than those seeking fast-paced action or explicit scares. Readers expecting a traditional ghost story with clear rules may find the ambiguity frustrating. However, for connoisseurs of Gothic fiction who value mood and psychological realism over plot twists, this remains a worthy exploration of rural isolation and mental unraveling.

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