Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials

viii, 310, iv pp. 8vo. "This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy." "Marion Lena Starkey (April 13, 1901, in Worcester, Massachusetts – December 18, 1991 in Saugus, Massachusetts) is the author of a number of history books. After working as a newspaper editor for the Saugus Herald and an English professor, she became a full-time writer. She began writing as a child, but did not take up writing full-time for many years. Her books include: The Tall Man from Boston, The Visionary Girls: Witchcraft in Salem Village, Cherokee Nation, The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, Land Where Our Fathers Died, Striving to Make It My Home, Congregational Way and The First Plantation: A History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1607-1887."