This fascinating account of the Salem Witch Trials explores their religious, social, and political dimensions, their origins, their critics, and their aftermath, as well as their influence on the American cultural imagination to the present day.

• Introduction: An Old Valuables Chest


• Chapter One: Satan's Storm


• Chapter Two: The City upon a Hill


• Chapter Three: Drawing Battle Lines in Salem Village


• Chapter Four: The Afflicted


• Chapter Five: The Accused


• Chapter Six: The Judges


• Chapter Seven: An Inextinguishable Flame


• Chapter Eight: Salem End


• Chapter Nine: Witch City?

Emerson W. Baker is Professor of History at Salem State College. He is the author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, and co-author of an award-winning biography of Sir William Phips.