ALL HALLOWS EVE COUNTDOWN ~ DAY 2 ~ YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Welcome, wanderers of the night…

For the next 31 nights, Petra’s Dark and Dreamy invites you to step through shadowed corridors and moonlit graveyards, where the whispers of the uncanny and the echoes of the forgotten stir. Join us as we count down to All Hallows’ Eve with tales that chill, enchant, and linger long after the candle flickers out. Tonight, the darkness calls — will you answer?

Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife, Faith, one night to venture into the forest, where he meets a mysterious man. As they journey deeper into the woods, Goodman Brown sees respected members of his Puritan community participating in a sinister, supernatural ceremony. Shocked and disillusioned, he returns home, haunted by the experience. He lives the rest of his life in suspicion and gloom, distrusting everyone—including Faith.

*Note: some changes have been made to the content. The author's use of the word "race" is used as a reference to humanity.

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