TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne, Nathaniel. TI - The House of Seven Gables SN - 0486408825 PY - 1999/// CY - Mineola, New York PB - Dover Publications Inc. KW - Domestic Fiction. Haunted Houses. Paranormal fiction KW - Fiction KW - Massachusetts - Salem. KW - Historical Fiction N2 - Colonel Pyncheon does well in denouncing Old Matthew: he founds a New England dynasty and builds a remarkable mansion; but on its opening day he is found dead, slaked in his own blood. By 1840, that dynasty is almost spent; amid the dust and decay of the Seven Gables, Clifford and Hepzibah believe in their own continued nobility as much as they believe in the mysterious curse still tracking the Pyncheons ER -