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

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

Agatha All Along has put Agatha Harkness in the spotlight alongside a coven of unlikely allies as they journey down the ...

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

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

West Salem High School and other nearby schools were placed on lockdown Friday afternoon after Salem-Keizer Public Schools and law enforcement received unconfirmed reports that a student with a ...

A book, “A brief history of London Mission in Salem and CSI Lechler Memorial Church,”, written by J. Barnabas, general secretary of Salem Historical Society, was released at the 171-year-old ...

Salem's Viva Salem festival celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month returns Saturday at Riverfront Park. The free, family-friendly event will feature live music, performances, food vendors, crafts and ...

WMUR NEWS NINE. RAY. THANK YOU. PEOPLE IN SALEM ARE WEIGHING IN ON A PROPOSAL TO BRING A NEW CASINO TO TOWN. A MEETING WAS HELD LAST NIGHT, BUT THE PLANNING BOARD POSTPONED THE VOTE, SAYING THAT A ...

The book Salem's Lot predates the creation of Castle Rock but the seeds are there. Advertisement Some of those townsfolk are little kids, the Glick brothers (Cade Woodward and Nicholas Crovetti ...

Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of ... too,” in the 1939 classic (based on L. Frank Baum’s book) has been in the pop culture pantheon for almost a century.