Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith at the door one evening and walks into the forest. He tells himself he will return before morning. He does not anticipate what waits for him in the dark — or how many familiar faces he will find there.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 story is a slow dismantling of faith, community, and the comfortable idea that the people closest to you are not what they appear. What Brown witnesses may have been real. It may have been a dream. Hawthorne does not decide for you.

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