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More weight : a Salem story / Ben Wickey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickey, Ben, author, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Witchcraft)--Massachusetts--Salem--History--17th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Trials (Witchcraft).
- Witchcraft--Massachusetts--Salem--History--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Witchcraft.
- Trials (Witchcraft)--History.
- Corey, Giles, 1611?-1692--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Corey, Giles.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
- Salem (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Salem (Mass.).
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- Massachusetts.
- Genre:
- Graphic novels.
- Historical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Fiction
- Graphic novels
- Historical fiction
- Nonfiction comics.
- Physical Description:
- 530 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Salem story
- Place of Publication:
- Sherman Oaks, CA : Top Shelf Productions, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Every word is an accusation...and every whisper kills." This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years later. In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 is a year of terror. When accusations of witchcraft plunge the community into paranoia and death, curmudgeonly farmer Giles Corey and his great-souled wife Martha are forced to confront their troubled pasts, fighting to hold onto their principles even at the cost of their lives. In the 1860s, famed writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow stroll the streets of Salem together, reflecting on their own dark connections to those wicked days. Today, graphic novelist Ben Wickey wrestles with the complex legacy of "the Witch City" and what it shows us about the best and worst of humanity. Based on true events, set in three centuries, and hand-drawn over a decade, More Weight is a stunning visual symphony -- a unique and profound inquiry into the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they still cast on us all.
- Contents:
- Intro: The witch city
- book I. Saints & devils ; Boon-companions ; The first stone ; The temptations of Giles Corey ; A gospel woman ; The invisible world ; The arrest ; The examination of Martha Corey ; Soap-bubbles ; Some sport ; The boy ; The wizard ; Liberties
- book II. The examination of Giles Corey ; A city upon a hill ; Civil wars ; Oyer & Terminer ; Blood to drink ; Angels of light ; By God & my country ; The better life ; More weight
- book III. Seven gables ; Inheritors of eternity
- Outro: More wonders of the invisible world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-530).
- ISBN:
- 9781603095600
- 1603095608
- OCLC:
- 1482060312
- Publisher Number:
- 90103156016
- CIPO000268788
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