THE DEEP ONES: "The Hollow of the Three Hills" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1semdetenebre
"The Hollow of the Three Hills" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Discussion Begins October 4, 2023.
First published in the Nov 12, 1830 issue of The Salem Gazette.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?584409
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Twice-Told Tales
The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales and Sketches
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales_(1837)/The_Hollow_of_the_Three_H...
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QEkW_bN24
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/nathaniel-hawthorne/
https://crimereads.com/nathaniel-hawthornes-salem-deliberate-evil/
https://tinyurl.com/3jap63n5
Discussion Begins October 4, 2023.
First published in the Nov 12, 1830 issue of The Salem Gazette.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?584409
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Twice-Told Tales
The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales and Sketches
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales_(1837)/The_Hollow_of_the_Three_H...
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QEkW_bN24
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/nathaniel-hawthorne/
https://crimereads.com/nathaniel-hawthornes-salem-deliberate-evil/
https://tinyurl.com/3jap63n5
2semdetenebre
It's a very nice touch that the spell the "withered crone" casts comes in the form of "monotonous words of a prayer that was not meant to be acceptable in Heaven". And malevolent Witch though she may be, it sounds like she might not be quite as contemptible as the lady at her feet.
Absolutely perfect line: "As the old withered woman spoke, a smile glimmered on her countenance, like lamplight on the wall of a sepulchre."
Absolutely perfect line: "As the old withered woman spoke, a smile glimmered on her countenance, like lamplight on the wall of a sepulchre."
3AndreasJ
The language is great, yes.
I wondered if the witch’s visions are accurate. I don’t think the story gives us any actual clue.
I wondered if the witch’s visions are accurate. I don’t think the story gives us any actual clue.
4housefulofpaper
I read a collection of Hawthorne's short supernatural fiction back in 2008. Apart from re-reading Rappaccini's Daughter a couple of times since, when it came up in other collections, I don't think I've read (or re-read) any other pieces by Hawthorne until now.
I had a sense of missing something, which I remembered from when I read him before. Although I understood on a surface level what was happening, was I meant to understand more of the implications of the scene? Would I "get it" if I knew more about the religious aspects of New England life in the early 19th Century?
I had the same kind of feeling when we read a Flannery O'Connor story a few years ago - her strain of Roman Catholicism being as much a closed book to me as Hawthorne's Puritanism.
I had a sense of missing something, which I remembered from when I read him before. Although I understood on a surface level what was happening, was I meant to understand more of the implications of the scene? Would I "get it" if I knew more about the religious aspects of New England life in the early 19th Century?
I had the same kind of feeling when we read a Flannery O'Connor story a few years ago - her strain of Roman Catholicism being as much a closed book to me as Hawthorne's Puritanism.
5semdetenebre
>4 housefulofpaper:
The crimereads link up above provides some good background which might apply to this tale.
The crimereads link up above provides some good background which might apply to this tale.