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The Witch

The Witch

HorrorParanormal
Not yet released
Pages
352
Language
English

Synopsis

Julia Barlow, having lost her job and apartment, retreats to Pemberton, her family's 17th-century estate in rural Massachusetts, under the guise of checking on her aging grandmother. The house unsettles her from the start — a clock that stops at the same hour every night, unexplained lights, cries in the dark — and digging into the property's past turns up a link to a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692. Old family secrets start clawing their way back into the present.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseCreepyMysteriousDark
Mystery Box

Genres

Horror Paranormal Suspense Thriller Psychological Thriller Mystery Gothic

About the author

F
Freida McFadden

Freida McFadden is the pen name of a practicing American physician who specializes in treating brain injury, and one of the best-selling psychological-thriller authors of her generation. She published under the pseudonym from her 2013 debut onward, keeping her identity hidden so her medical patients wouldn’t connect her to her fiction, and only revealed her real name publicly in April 2026. The name itself is a medical inside joke — “FREIDA” is the acronym for the American Medical Association’s...

Characters

Julia BarlowProtagonist

Out of a job and an apartment, she retreats to her family's Massachusetts estate to check on her grandmother — and to disappear.

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