salem (mass.)

Explores what primed Salem for its witchcraft fever, key people in the drama, and the events of the Salem witch trials that led to the execution of 19 innocent people.

Presents profiles of sixteen significant people who influenced, caused, or reacted to the Salem witch trials of 1692 during which hundreds of men and women were jailed after being accused of witchcraft, and over twenty lost their lives.

Examines the events surrounding the Salem Witchcraft Trials and the unjust treatment of those who were falsely accused.

Reexamines the Salem witch trials in light of modern psychology and feminism.

Presents an abridged and adapted version of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred year-old curse.

An account of the madness that overtook Salem Village, Massachusetts, when several young girls accused a number of adults in the community of being witches.

For 15-year-old Sarah Owen, having a scientist father is a blessing and a curse. He doesn't bat an eye at her pyschic abilities, since he researches them; and she knows more about the invisible worlds of microbes, electricity, and gravity than most girls in the 17th Century. But when Sarah travels to the Americas with her father to do more research, she's shipwrecked and lands for a time on the Gullah Islands. Later, when the plantation owners find her and send her north to Salem, Massachusetts, her abilities get her into trouble.

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

Presents critical essays on Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.