In the frozen, desolate hills of Hemlock County, a sinister mystery unfolds. When three men—Orrin Bosworth, Deacon Hibben, and Sylvester Brand—are summoned to the eerie Rutledge house on a stormy winter night, they expect a matter of earthly concern. But Prudence Rutledge has something far more chilling to reveal: her husband, Saul, is bewitched. Haunted by spectral encounters at the abandoned shack by Lamer’s Pond, Saul insists he has been meeting with Ora Brand—Sylvester’s daughter, long dead and buried.
As the snow deepens and twilight descends, the men set out to uncover the truth, but the tracks in the snow tell a story that defies reason. Is Saul Rutledge truly cursed? Is the restless dead walking among them? Or is something darker, something buried in the past, pulling them toward an unthinkable conclusion? In Bewitched, Edith Wharton conjures an atmosphere thick with dread, where isolation breeds madness, and the supernatural feels disturbingly real.