HEX

Black Spring looks like a picturesque Hudson Valley town, but its residents live under an ancient curse: the ghost of Katherine van Wyler, a woman executed for witchcraft in the 1600s after being forced to kill her own son, drifts through the town and even through people's living rooms, her eyes and mouth sewn shut. Everyone knows the cardinal rule—her eyes must never be opened—and a secret agency called HEX, run by Robert Grim, works constantly to keep the haunting hidden from the outside world.

When Tyler Grant and his friends, chafing against the fear that defines their lives, decide to defy the elders and broadcast Katherine to the internet, they set off a chain of events that drags Black Spring back toward the mob justice and superstition of the seventeenth century. Thomas Olde Heuvelt's HEX is a chilling, modern folk-horror novel about fear, community, and the cruelty people unleash when they think no one is watching.