Bewitched Pages: 20 Enchanting Witchcraft Storybooks
Gothic Tales, Salem Trials, Folklore, and Fantastical Spells Across the CenturiesBy Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, Frederick Marryat, Joanna E. Wood, Pauline Bradford Mackie, William Stearns Davis, Gertrude Crownfield, Reginald Scot, Robert Bloomer Hare Bell, Margaret Alice Murray, Thomas active 1612-1618 Potts, Thomas Lambert Sappington, M. V. B. Perley, John R. Musick, Ebenezer Wheelwright, Kenneth James Sir Beatty, Wallace Notestein, L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson, William Henry Giles Kingston
Length148h 21m
About this audiobook
Bewitched Pages: 20 Enchanting Witchcraft Storybooks gathers witchcraft's many literary lives: feared crime, folkloric inheritance, gothic menace, occult speculation, and children's wonder. Its selections traverse early modern testimony and demonological debate, nineteenth-century historical romance and sensation fiction, maritime adventure, and fantastic tales for younger readers. The volume's particular strength lies in this tonal breadth: grim accounts of accusation and supernatural dread stand beside playful enchantments, making witchcraft visible not as a fixed motif but as a changing cultural language. The contributors form an unusually wide historical constellation. Early modern writers associated with witch trials, skepticism, and the recording of popular belief encounter Victorian and Edwardian novelists, historians of witchcraft, Gothic experimenters, and major architects of American fantasy. Figures such as H. P. Lovecraft, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, and Ruth Plumly Thompson appear within a larger transatlantic archive shaped by Puritan memory, Romantic antiquarianism, spiritualism, imperial adventure, and the emergence of modern fantasy. Together, these voices reveal how gender, authority, childhood, religion, and national folklore inform representations of magical power. This anthology is recommended for students of the fantastic, folklore, and cultural history, as well as general readers seeking an expansive introduction to witchcraft in literature. Its twenty works invite comparison across centuries and genres, offering both pleasure and intellectual provocation. Read collectively, they foster a rich dialogue between fear and delight, historical record and imaginative reinvention.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length148 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ye Lyttle Salem Maide
2Chapter I A Meeting in the Forest
3Chapter II Sir Jonathan’s Warning
4Chapter III The Yellow Bird
5Chapter IV In which Demons assault the Meeting-house
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6Chapter V The Coming of the Town Beadle
7Chapter VI The Woman of Ipswich
8Chapter VII The Trial of Deliverance
9Chapter VIII The Last Witness
10Chapter IX In which Abigail sees Deliverance
11Chapter X A Little Life sweetly Lived
12Chapter XI Abigail goes to Boston Town
13Chapter XII Mr. Cotton Mather visits Deliverance
14Chapter XIII In the Green Forest
15Chapter XIV A Fellow of Harvard
16Chapter XV Lord Christopher Mallett
17Chapter XVI At the Governor’s House
18Chapter XVII In a Sedan-chair
19Chapter XVIII The Coming of Thomas
20Chapter XIX On Gallows’ Hill
21Chapter XX The Great Physician
22A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials
23INTRODUCTION
24MRS. HOWE’S CASE
25DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE IPSWICH HOWES—JAMES BRANCH ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO
26Discovery of Witches. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
27INTRODUCTION.
28Placita Coronæ.
293. Indictment. (pt. 1)
303. Indictment. (pt. 2)
31THE
32A N D T R I A L L OF
33Footnote
34Chetham Society
35Footnote
36The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692
37INTRODUCTION.
38CHAPTER FIFTH.
39CHAPTER TENTH.
40CHAPTER THIRTEENTH.
41CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.
42A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
43THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS BALTIMORE, M.D., U.S.A.
44CHAPTER II.
45CHAPTER III.
46CHAPTER IV.
47CHAPTER V.
48CHAPTER VI.
49CHAPTER VII.
50CHAPTER VIII.
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