Summary Bibliography: Thomas Olde Heuvelt". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. isfdb.org . Retrieved 8 November 2019.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Quien vive allí tiene que aprender a convivir con ella, no hay otra. Algo que llevan arrastrando desde hace nada menos que 350 años. Setting ancient magic against contemporary technology, HEXis one of the most thoughtful horror stories of the twenty-first century, made all the more chilling for its uncompromising view of humanity.Aún con sus defectos que le pasaron factura es una historia que merece la pena. Es rara como ella sola. Extravagante. Es original, eso desde luego.. La puesta en escena es de lo más original. Como caerte en un abismo del que no querrás salir, y de hacerlo, no lo harás indemne.

Todo un acierto elegir éste libro como lectura conjunta de Halloween con mi alma gemela en éste maravilloso universo de libros 📚📚📚 Y las dos hemos dado de pleno ❤ In 2016, Olde Heuvelt's worldwide debut novel HEX was published in the US by Tor Books and in the UK and Australia by Hodder and Stoughton. Horror novelist Stephen King tweeted about the book, calling it "totally, brilliantly original". [7] The publication was followed by a six-week book tour through the US. [ citation needed]

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Praise for HEX Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the international bestselling author of HEX. The much-praised novel was published in over twenty-five countries around the world and is currently in development for TV by Gary Dauberman. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means “Old Hill,” was the first ever translated author to win a Hugo Award for his short story "The Day the World Turned Upside Down". For the translation, HEX has been transposed from the Netherlands, where the original Dutch version takes place, to the United States. This is something I was originally wary of; I feel it sets a dangerous precedent, and that we should be able to relate to stories from other cultures and settings without needing them realigned with our own. However, given the current political climate in the United States, and the subtext of small town fear of outsiders that runs through HEX, I felt that the change actually worked really well and gave the story timely resonance. Steve was impressed. Now that he had a better look, he could see that, sure enough, the façade was nothing but a hodgepodge of mawkish porcelain figures and carelessly glued geegaws—and badly painted, too. The organ pipes weren’t even real chrome, but gold-lacquered PVC. Even the “Radetzky March” fell flat: an illusion, without the delightful sighing of the valves or the slapping of the perforated music cards that you would expect from an instrument of yesteryear. Thomas Olde Heuvelt (born 16 April 1983) is a Dutch horror writer. His short stories have received the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Dutch Paul Harland Prize, and have been nominated for two additional Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award.

Haunting stories have been done numerous times, but this one did offer up something new in my opinion. Similarly, Robert Grim’s fascination with barbed wire and isolationism arise from his desire to protect everyone in the town. Griselda Holst believes that her sacrifices to the Witch will save her and her son. These characters’ actions, though motivated by love and good intentions, wind up being just as destructive as the actions of those motivated by paranoia. It is this as much as the darkness, or the horrifying climax, that makes HEX such a bleak and unsettling book. As in a Ramsey Campbell novel, we watch these utterly human and relatable characters, drawn on by their best intentions and their instincts, each taking the next logical step towards their own destruction. Lindeboom, Martijn (16 February 2013). "Verslagen van de Paul Harland Dag". Paul Harland Prijs . Retrieved 10 May 2013.

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And so did the scary aspects of the novel. If you consider something ridiculous, how can you be scared of it?