In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the most cinematic moments: arrest, prosecution, and execution.

The witch trials, the golden age of Salem, and Hocus Pocus ... Accuracy wasn’t that important to Kenny, but it was important to the art department. Mary Vogt (Costume Designer): In order ...

As I write this article on a sunny autumn afternoon, 1.2 million tourists are quickly invading my local city of Salem, Massachusetts. Many come for the haunted ...

Correnti is one of several thousand Catholics in Salem, which nowadays is a mecca for the occult. Since around the early ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Pulling up at Marblehead’s Harbor Light Hotel, my oldest friend and I wasted no time securing two counter seats at the Tavern tucked inside. A Christmas tree twinkled incongruously as we planned ...

Ghouls flock to graveyards older than the American Constitution, and witches descend on the thoroughfares of Salem, Mass. as they sport thick plaid scarves and modern knitted witch hats — on ...

We have picked five stories from the past seven days in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire to ...

Dauber’s right, though, to identify Salem as a keystone to American horror ... The historian Mary Beth Norton has argued that the witch trials were rooted in trauma and anxiety about the ...