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In Princeton, New Jersey, the patrician families eagerly await the wedding of Annabel Slade, a beautiful daughter of privilege. The small, affluent village is home to an intellectual elite that includes the highly-strong overseer of the University and future Us President, Woodrow Wilson, and Upton Sinclair, fervent idealist and author of the sensational bestseller The Jungle.But all is not as in this placid community. A savage lynching in a nearby city is hushed up : women succumbs to an irresistibly charismatic stranger and are damned ; and slowly the entire town slips under the influence of an unspeakable power that seduces the virtuous and provokes a bloodlust in the guilty and aggrieved alike. In this literart tour de force, the historical inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton are seamlessly women into a macabre and fantastical tale, where all are made to confront their most abhorrent fears and darkest desires. A tale of psychological horror, The Accursed is both mythic rendering of the monstrous birth of a modern nation, and gripping indictment of a generation wilfully blind to the unpalatable truths of its origins.
