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The Witchcraft of Salem Village (1956), a children's book by Shirley Jackson. [17] The Crucible (1961), an opera by Robert Ward (1917–2013), based on the 1952 play by Arthur Miller. [18] The Pariah (1983) by Graham Masterton takes place in Salem and attributes the trials to the presence of the Aztec demon Mictlantecuhtli.
It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood , who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate.
Mary Katherine Blackwood is the main character in Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The eighteen-year-old "Merricat" lives with her remaining family members, Constance and Julian Blackwood, on an estate in Vermont.
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. In the play, the Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. [57] Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare's day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, "the most notorious traytor and rebell that can ...
Terry Pratchett reimagined Macbeth in the Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters (1988). In this story 3 witches, led by Granny Weatherwax, attempt to put a murdered king's heir on the throne. [51] In 2018, Jo Nesbø wrote Macbeth, a retelling of the play as a thriller. The novel was part of Hogarth Shakespeare. [52] [53]
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [ 1 ] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
The Sundial tells the story of the residents of the Halloran house, opening on the evening of the funeral of Lionel Halloran, the house's master. Lionel's wife, Maryjane, is convinced that Lionel was pushed down the stairs and murdered by his mother, Orianna Halloran, who stands to inherit the house; only hours after the funeral, Maryjane taught her young daughter, Fancy, to repeat the phrase ...