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Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man - who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. In the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up.When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power, to the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair and the most famous writer of the era, Mark Twain - all plagued by "accursed" visions.
An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer - narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect. ISBN:9780062263445
