What is scarier? Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Hex 

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Synopsis: Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.

Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened.

The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting, but in so doing send the town spiraling into the dark, medieval practices of the past.

  

Where in town is the creepy witch? 

There's an app for that. The people of this small town use the HEX mobile app to track and avoid her as much as possible. 

While reading this I really spent a good amount of time deciding if the terrifying 300-year old witch or human nature was scarier.

“Humanity has proven time and time again that it has a tendency to cross boundaries it shouldn’t.” Chapter Six

I think it's interesting that when this was translated from Dutch to English the author decided he would re-write some of the story, changing the setting to New York and changing the ending from the original Dutch version.