lithub.com/how-a-love-of-salem-and-the-house-of-seven-gables-inspired-my-debut-novel How a Love of Salem and The House of Seven Gables Inspired My Debut Novel
Debut novelist Ashley Woo explains how Salem, its witch trial history, and Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables inspired Wildwood, a Vermont-set gothic mystery about inherited estates, greed, ancestral sin and redemption.
— via Literary Hub, Ashley Woo