The Witches

By Stacy Schiff,

Book cover of The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

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1 author picked The Witches as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

For me, Stacy Schiff’s masterpiece is the end-all, be-all resource when it comes to the history of early America’s witchcraft trials—which, it turns out, extended far beyond the village of Salem. The seed for my own novel came from one tiny line in the book’s “Cast of Characters” index: “Herrick, George, well-born, handsome Salem deputy sheriff in his thirties…Spends 1692 rounding up and transporting witches.”

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