The reader will discover the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.

"Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials... Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were...

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...

We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began ... with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will...

SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem’%x; s ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite –%x; a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town’%x; s unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and...