salem (mass.)

Follows the Pyncheon family who lived for generations under a dead man's curse until his death restored their house.

Towner Whitney, descended from a line of mind readers and fortune tellers, returns to Salem, Massachusetts to recover from several traumas and discovers that her great-aunt Eva has suspiciously drowned, and local cop John Rafferty looks into the mystery while falling for Towner.

Presents information for young people on what really happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a group of girls and young women accused certain people in the village of witchcraft, leading to the executions of innocent men and women.

Examines the Salem witch trials from a seventeenth-century perspective, discussing the people involved, including the accused, the accusers, the confessors, and the judges; the role of gossip; and the influence of external factors such as the Indian wars on the Maine frontier.

Lauren Durough leaves her life of privilege to take a part-time job transcribing the journal entries of Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials, and as she is pulled into Mercy's life, she discovers many of Mercy's traits and trials live on in her ancestor, Lauren's new boss.

A story about ghosts and witchcraft as ghosthunters Tess and Tobias board a train for Blackthorne, near Salem.

Presents evidence to support the author's theory that the strange physical and mental symptoms experienced by the residents of Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692, which were at the time attributed to witchcraft, were actually caused by encephalitis.