People drop down dead if she is displeased. Neighbouring communities visit Black Spring, ignorant to the real threat. Black Spring’s HEX committee follow Katherine’s visitations in a sort of war room for the paranormal, and the town itself hides the witch in plain sight, playing her up as harmless local superstition to the outside world. The town is shaped by the cast iron rule that the secret does not get out. Condemned as a witch in a bygone era, Katherine van Wyler is Black Spring’s big secret. She pops up at random, sometimes in the woods, sometimes in a living room, sometimes at the side of a bed - the sleepy occupants move to the sofa downstairs, waiting for her to vanish again. The premise is engaging: a phantom witch, her lips and eyes sewn shut, haunts the small town of Black Spring. HEX is an easy read but I have mixed feelings about it. The note and the sombre jacket of this book encouraged me to buy it. You know, the little handwritten notes posted alongside certain books in bookstores.
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