Check out our list of movies (and a TV show) that take place in and around Salem for the perfect Halloween vibes.

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

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In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

Linda Reiter stars as the title character in Shattered Globe Theatre’s production of “Becky Nurse of Salem,” as a tour guide ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...