description: Madness has stricken Salem Village. Girls fall in the streets and writhe on the ground, shrieking and crying in terror. They crouch beneath tables and hurl themselves towards fire pits. They cut off their own breath, clawing at their throats with arms covered with bite marks and hideous scratches. The townspeople whisper in horrified certainty—it is witchcraft. There are witches in Salem, witches who must be destroyed. It all begins when thirteen-year-old Mercy Lewis and a group of girls start meeting in the Reverend’s kitchen to play a forbidden game. They are caught, and in an effort to save themselves, they create a lie, a lie that is nurtured and manipulated, a lie that grows fangs and claws—and a hangman’s noose. This is the story of the Salem Witch Trials as told through the eyes of Mercy Lewis, a thirteen-year-old girl who helped to sentence to death 26 innocent people.
language: English
title: The Madness: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials
titlecomplete: The Madness: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials
ratings_count: 2
publisher: PublishAmerica