Initially blush, Widdershins is a conventional haunted house tale involving an unsuccessful writer, who techniques into a clear house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His level of sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and his sanity are destroyed along the way …

The story can be read as narrating the gradual possession of the protagonist with a mysterious and possessive feminine spirit, or as a realistic description of a psychotic outbreak culminating in catatonia and murder, told from the psychotic subject’s perspective. The precise description of the sluggish disintegration of the protagonist’s mind is terrifying in any case.

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