Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl”) has been tapped to topline a new paranormal series from celebrated horror producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker Kevin Williamson (Scream, “Vampire Diaries”). The show is being produced for The CW with David Nutter (“Game of Thrones”) directing.

Szohr plays the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess exploiting her heritage to sell trinkets to tourists in Baton Rouge. When she starts to experience paranormal phenomena, she seeks help from a once successful parapsychologist turned convention attraction.

Szohr is best known for playing sullen hot chick Vanessa Abrams in The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” but thrilled horror fans in 2010 with a bikini-clad role in Piranha 3D.