(PhysOrg.com) -- For 60 years, the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit has been famous for the events of a few days in August, 1951, when dozens of villagers were struck with unexplainable and ...

If you eat the bread, youll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the bakers wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and ...

Slipping into Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction is as comforting as it is disquieting. The tender consideration lavished on her characters, especially the women and girls her novels revolve around, is ...

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and ...

In the intense but muddled latest from Mackintosh (Cursed Bread), a pent-up woman falls for a set of newcomers to her remote French village a few years after WWII. The narrator, 30-something Elodie, ...

Darkly erotic tale of a town gripped by madness, inspired by a mysterious mass poisoning in a French village in the aftermath of the Second World War which may have been caused by spoiled bread.