Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt

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"Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.

 Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened.

The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting, but in so doing send the town spiraling into the dark, medieval practices of the past."


Being October, and with Halloween just around the corner what better time to recommend a horror book. It's not often I read a "horror" book not  because I get scared mostly because I don't usually find them frightening but I had saw this novel had received good reviews and so thought it was worth a try. 

Hex tells the story of a small town called Black Springs which has been haunted by a 17th Century woman by the name of Katherine Van Wyler who appears around town anywhere from living rooms to the woods scaring local residents with her horrible stench and her eyes and mouth sewn shut. The town's residents have accepted her as a way of life and observe her every move, whilst trying to stop outsiders from learning of her existence. 

The book starts of calm enough however the books builds and builds getting more horrifying throughout, thing going from bad to worse to beyond. I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend picking up a copy, you can find it here, the book was first published in Dutch and according to the author's notes had had its ending changed for this English version so if anyone out there has read the original please get in touch on twitter and let me know the original ending,

You can find more about the author Thomas Olde Heuvelt here. 

Thanks For Reading, Sam 

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