Ah, leave it to Hitch to fulfill the gothic needs by including one of the stories of M.R. James, The Ash Tree.
Witches, curses, horrible deaths over the generations, bedrooms haunted by an old ash tree that nearly touches a family home.
This is the kind of story on which I was raised.
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Don’t make me read “Macbeth” again. Too much toil and trouble.
Ah, a Shakespearean baby. I should’ve known.