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The Hex House: Tulsa's Tale of Terror
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 5 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the autumn shadows of 1940s Tulsa, police entered an ordinary house and uncovered an extraordinary secret. Inside 10 East 21st Street, two women lived under the complete control of a third, Carol Ann Smith, a seemingly respectable widow whose quiet authority hid something far darker. Newspapers called it The Hex House. What they found there would haunt Tulsa for generations.
Blending true crime, social history, and folklore, The Hex House: Tulsa's Tale of Terror follows the story from scandal to legend. Andrew Langley traces how faith, fear, and obedience intertwined in wartime America, and how one woman's grip over others reflected the anxieties of an entire nation.
Through meticulous research and haunting prose, Langley explores how a city tried to bury its past and how memory refused to stay buried. What began as a story of captivity became a parable of belief and control, retold again and again until fact and myth were indistinguishable.
The Hex House is a haunting work of historical true crime that unearths the chilling 1940s Tulsa scandal known as the Hex House, revealing how obedience, fear, and belief intertwined in wartime America.
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