num_pages: 511
description: In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive old Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living, while musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation - or its downfall.
language: English
title: The House of the Seven Gables
titlecomplete: The House of the Seven Gables
characters: Venner Pyncheon, Colonel Pyncheon, Alice Pyncheon, Clifford Pyncheon, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, Matthew Maule, Scipio (Pyncheon slave), Ned Higgins, Thomas Maule, Phoebe Pyncheon, Gervayse Pyncheon, Holgrave the daguerrotypist, Matthew Maule, the younger, Hepzibah Pyncheon
genres: Classics, American, Gothic, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 38848
places: Massachusetts, New England, Salem, Massachusetts
publisher: Thorndike Press