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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
