This week I've been reading "The Dreams in the Witch House," H.P. Lovecraft's classic 1932 tale of witches, creepy little ...

As I watched the enormous number of mourners at Queen Elizabeth's recent funeral, I found myself wondering how many people will attend m...

The Devil must have really wanted Joseph Ring to become a witch. Over the course of two years poor Joseph was spirited away to the Witches...

"She is a monument of divine severity; and the Lord grant that all that see or hear, may fear and tremble. Amen." (Reverend Samuel...

When most people think of a witch, they picture an elderly, disheveled woman wearing rags. This is the archetypal witch in Western culture, ...

When I was a kid in Haverhill, Massachusetts I wasn't that interested in local history. I knew about the city's heroine Hannah Dusto...

Many years ago a sea captain named Jeremiah Snaggs lived on Cape Cod. Captain Snaggs was quite wealthy, but he didn't owe his success to...

Many years ago out in Western Massachusetts there lived a man named Tom Cook. Tom was not popular in town. He was a "rough sort of cu...

Here's another story about someone making a deal with the Devil. It's a little raunchy, and was recorded among the Penobscot Indians...

I was going to write something about Thanksgiving this week, but I found myself inspired to write about something the exact opposite: the De...

Although it is warm and sunny out I am in the mood for witchcraft stories. Honestly I am always in the mood for witchcraft, but this month i...

Although Halloween has sadly passed, the nights and weather are only going to get darker and gloomier from here on. It's still the seaso...

Imagine yourself walking through the New England forest on a moonlit night. You're lost in your thoughts, concentrating on the path s...