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2 authors picked The Witches as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Award-winning historian Stacy Schiff takes the reader back to 17th-century Salem village and the society that enabled the Salem witchcraft frenzy.

Without overwhelming the reader with facts, Schiff weaves the story of events with empathy. Good history is an accurate story told well, and Schiff’s extensive research and accessible writing style do just that.

For me, Stacy Schiff’s masterpiece is the end-all, be-all resource when it comes to the history of early America’s witchcraft trials—which, it turns out, extended far beyond the village of Salem. The seed for my own novel came from one tiny line in the book’s “Cast of Characters” index: “Herrick, George, well-born, handsome Salem deputy sheriff in his thirties…Spends 1692 rounding up and transporting witches.”

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