Bewitched

<p><strong>In the desolate quiet of the New England mountains the supernatural is nothing compared to the power of human desire.</strong></p><p>Lichen a farmer in a remote corner of the Berkshires is a man tormented. His aging sickly wife Mrs. Rutledge believes she's being poisoned by a phantom rival: a dead woman named Ora.</p><p>But the phantom is all too real.</p><p>Lichen has fallen into a terrifying consuming passion with the alluring ghost of his deceased neighbor Ora Brand. Every night he leaves the bedside of his living suffering wife to keep a secret spectral rendezvous on the frozen mountain.</p><p>As Mrs. Rutledge's health fades and the neighbors whisper about witchcraft the local lawyer Saul Rutledge is drawn into the mystery. He discovers that the real horror isn't the supernatural haunting but the emotional truth behind it: <strong>a desperate man a dying woman and a love that exists only in the mind.</strong></p><p>Edith Wharton delivers a masterful study in atmosphere and psychological horror turning the classic ghost story into a bleak and devastating examination of isolation guilt and the dark landscape of rural despair. This is a haunting tale where the human heart proves far more cruel than any spirit.</p>