Just in time for Samhain: The climax, conclusion, and aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials. Also: the life and times of Cotton Mather, Puritan witch-hunter; the Kissing Bug apocalypse; the conspiracy to burn down Manhattan; and the return and eventual triumph of mass psychogenic illness, starting in upstate New York.

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