The Salem witch trials were a tragic and complicated chapter in American history. Katherine Howe did plenty of research to make The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane so rich with historical detail. These are just some of the books that inspired her.

• Behind the Crystal Ball by Anthony Aveni
• Salem Possessed by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
• Salem-Village Witchcraft by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
• Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davies
• Entertaining Satan by John Demos
• Women Before the Bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
• Witchcraft, Magic, and Alchemy by Grillot de Givry
• Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen
• In the Devil’s Snare by Mary Beth Norton
• Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
• A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft, University of Virginia’s online archive of Salem witchcraft papers