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The Salem witch trials

2012
Retells, in graphic novel format, the story of the Salem Witch Trials, during which eighteen people were hanged, five died in jail, and another was killed after being accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late 1600s.

Susannah Morrow

2002
At fifteen years old, Charity Fowler finds herself pulled into the middle of the Salem witch trials when her aunt is accused of being a witch and the townspeople set out to destroy her and the rest of the family.

Rediscovering America: The Salem Witch Trials

Explores the political, economic and sociological issues that created the infamous Witch Trials of Salem.

The Crucible

a play in four acts
1975

The making of Salem

the witch trials in history, fiction and tourism
2009
"The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still linger centuries later. This critical study examines original trial transcripts, historical accounts, fiction and drama, film and television shows, and tourist sites in contemporary Salem, challenging the process of how history is collected and recorded"--Provided by publisher.

The April ghost

1975
In Salem in 1785 the activities of a ghost in a vacant house and the arrival in town of two young men drastically change sixteen-year-old Amanda's lonely life.

Salem witch trials

1998
In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness someone hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. Twenty of them were executed.

Las brujas de Salem

teatro ; El crisol : gui?on
2005
Contains the script for the theater production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," in which a scorned young woman sets off a wave of hysteria in seventeenth-century Salem after accusing her lover's wife of witchcraft, and includes a screenplay based on the script.

The crucible

text and criticism
1996

The house of the seven gables

1998
Follows the Pyncheon family who lived for generations under a dead man's curse until his death restored their house.

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