The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published in the year 1851, the present gothic novel ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne follows a New England family and their ancestral home. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne’s cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.