The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

by Stacy Schiff

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'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees.

Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how...

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  • ISBN10 031620059X
  • ISBN13 9780316200592
  • Publish Date 20 September 2016 (first published 1 October 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Little, Brown & Company
  • Imprint Back Bay Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 512
  • Language English