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THE BEWITCHING

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

"In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror."Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Awardwinning author of The Reformatory
"Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches": That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minervastories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that's why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.

In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay's most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: Decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay's manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.

Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels Velvet Was the Night, Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and a bunch of other books. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Awardwinning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu's Daughters). She has been nominated for the Locus Award for her work as an editor and has won the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award for her work as a novelist.
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Published 2025-07-15 by Del Rey

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Classic horror fans will obsess over this witchy, suspenseful, time-jumping tale that follows three generations of haunted women.

New England dark academia becomes Mexican folklore becomes tantalizing gothic thriller, and the weave binds ever tighter on each heart-pounding pageright up to the phenomenal conclusion. This is Silvia Moreno-Garcia at the height of her powers!

Moreno-Garcia is a deft enchantressthis is a ghost story in high Gothic style.

In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror. This multigenerational story weaves class, history, and brujería in the way only Moreno-Garcia can. Fans of Silver Nitrate and Mexican Gothic can rejoiceThe Bewitching does not disappoint!

Well-researched and beautifully written, The?Bewitching?will satisfy fans looking for a darkly atmospheric read. Readers who enjoyed Leigh Bardugo's?Ninth House?or Tana French's moody, character-driven murder mysteries will also revel in this novel's twists and turns.

A thoroughly enjoyable book about power, privilege, dark magic, and?the?capacity for stories to transcend?them all.

Moreno-Garcia once again proves why she's a queen of the modern, unsettling horror novel.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is herself a keen student of the history of genre storytelling and the ways in which it's reflected in our culture. It's what made her novels like Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate so gripping. Now, Moreno-Garcia is back with a meditation on horror literature, and the story of one woman tracking down the origins of a novel with surprising truth at its core. Any new Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel is cause for celebration, but this one feels custom-built for us horror nerds.

Yet another triumph from one of North America's most exciting authors. Suspenseful and terrifying; Moreno-Garcia hits it out of?the?park yet again.

UK and Commonwealth to Arcadia/ Quercus; Spanish rights to Minotauro/Planeta.

Moreno-Garcia never misses, and this multigenerational tale of witches and lost women promises literary elegance with a sinister bite

With this equally spooky and sophisticated horror novel, bestseller Moreno-Garcia proves she's as adept playing in the tropes of dark academia as any of the other subgenres she's tried on. . . . It's as unsettling as it is unputdownable.

Effortlessly merges witch folklore across time, giving readers a chilling horror novel, a multi-generational saga, a satisfying mystery, and a reminder of?the?interconnectedness of humanity, all in one?bewitching?package. . . a triumph.

The Bewitching is un embrujo espectaculara harrowing multigenerational saga that possesses and devours anyone who reads it. Dazzling, terrifying, and sumptuous, this is a 'finish in one sitting' story that won't let you go, even long after you've closed the book.

Moreno-Garcia is back to give us a multigenerational horror saga that will possess anyone who reads it with its entrancing storytelling. Following the lives of three women, this story holds the power of women, stories, and witches.

The Bewitching is a stunning story about the power of generational knowledge that proves that any danger to be found in magic lies solely in the person who wields it. Silvia Moreno-Garcia shows just how a story can be a spellone I was happy to be under.

The mysterious nature of Scorpios will be captivated by this dangerous multigenerational horror saga as they meticulously uncover every eerie secret within.

Witchcraft and the power of narrative intersect to yield this evocative, powerful tale.

My first Silvia Moreno-Garcia book was 2015's Signal to Noise, and since then I've paid close attention to her genre-mixing body of work. The Mexican Gothic author's latest is the horror-fantasy The Bewitching, a story that's both eerie and entrancing. Set across three timelines1990s Massachusetts, 1930s Massachusetts, and 1900s Mexicothe plot joins three women whose lives are touched by sorcery. While studying the work of 20th-century horror novelist Beatrice Tremblay, grad student Minerva starts to experience strange happenings around her college campus. Her great-grandmother, Alba, used to tell tales of witches, and Minerva begins to wonder if witchcraft is responsible for these events. As the three women's stories knit together, Moreno-Garcia builds a compellingly rich saga of history, folklore, and hauntings.

This is a spellbinding book by a skilled writer. The result is a read that'll have you in its thrall from start to finish. The Bewitching is a resounding affirmation of Moreno-Garcia's talents as a horror writer and offers an inventive merging of witch lore from two different North American traditions.

Remarkably gripping, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Bewitching is a gorgeous, propulsive tale of witchcraft across the generations. This is a novel of eerie beauty, a book you won't want to turn your back on.