The Bewitching: folk horror meets dark academia in this thrilling supernatural mystery from the bestselling...

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Bewitching

folk horror meets dark academia in this thrilling supernatural mystery from the bestselling...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Arcadia Books
29 July 2025

Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Horror

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.

'Moreno-Garcia is a deft enchantress - this is a ghost story in high Gothic style' - M.L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains

'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 Minerva - stories 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.

Readers love The Bewitching . . .

'An absolute masterpiece' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Hauntingly addictive' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Feels like being put under a spell' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Evocative and chilling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Gothic fiction at its finest' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Had me enthralled from the first page until the last' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Blew my expectations out of the water . . . This may be the best gothic horror book of 2025' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Imprint: Arcadia Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 443g
ISBN: 9781529441710
ISBN 10: 1529441714
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the multi-award-winning author of Mexican Gothic (a New York Times bestseller), Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of Time magazine's top 100 fantasy novels of all time), The Beautiful Ones, Certain Dark Things, the noir thrillers Untamed Shore and Velvet Was The Night, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silver Nitrate and the forthcoming The Seventh Veil of Salome. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist, and the World Fantasy Award as an editor. Born and brought up in Mexico, she now lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Reviews for The Bewitching: folk horror meets dark academia in this thrilling supernatural mystery from the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic

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 * J.M. Miro, author of ORDINARY MONSTERS * A stunning story about the power of generational knowledge and proves that if there is any danger to be found in magic, it lies solely in the person who wields it. By gently leading readers through different time periods, places, and perspectives, Silvia Moreno-Garcia shows just how a story can be a spell - one I was happy to be under * Jessica Johns, author of BAD CREE * The Bewitching is un embrujo espectacular - a harrowing, multi-generational saga that possesses and devours anyone who reads it. Moreno-Garcia deftly weaves together a lush folk horror, basement-of-the-soul nightmare and an atmospheric mystery, in this intoxicating tale of Minerva, her great-grandmother, Alba, and a legacy of women destined to cross the paths of witches. Dazzling. Terrifying. Sumptuous. This is a ""finish in one sitting"" story that won't let you go long after you've closed the book * Marcela Fuentes, author of MALAS * Spooky and sophisticated . . . Moreno-Garcia toggles between the gothic, über-privileged world of Stoneridge and the harsh reality of life in Alba's Mexican village, keeping readers in the dark about how they connect, and then pulls the threads together in a searing finale. It's as unsettling as it is unputdownable * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *