The House of the Seven Gables Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne "God will give him blood to drink" An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living... — Four Pyncheons play a part inside the blighted house: — Hepzibah, an elderly recluse — Clifford, her feeble-minded brother — Phoebe, their y... more »oung cousin...and
Jaffrey, a devil incarnate whose greedy quest for secret wealth is marked by murder and terrible vengenance from a restless grave. This is a romance?« less