(Dauber is a professor at Columbia University.) Dauber’s right, though, to identify Salem as a keystone to American horror, an event that illustrates how intertwined the genre is with history.

Theories about what sparked the Salem Witch Trials include everything from a hallucinogenic fungus to psychological disorders and economic conditions. But now, scientists may have settled the ...

Each October, tourists ask how to beat the infamous crowds in Salem. Everyone has tricks: Get there early, take public transit, take advantage of weekdays. But as photos of Essex Street Pedestrian ...

CUSTOMERS AND STAFF OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES. THE CITY OF SALEM WILL PAY SOME RESIDENTS $500 A MONTH, AND YOU CAN SPEND THE CASH HOWEVER YOU WANT. THE PILOT PROGRAM, CALLED UPLIFT SALEM AND THE ...

Salem will give 100 eligible residents $500 a month for a year as it studies the impact of guaranteed income, Mayor Dominick Pangallo said in a statement. “I’m excited to announce the launch ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of ...

Boston Globe//Getty Images A copy of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches ) on view at the Salem Witch Trials exhibit at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA on Sept. 24, 2020.

Salem is the latest Massachusetts city to try to stabilize the lives of some of its lowest income residents by providing monthly cash payments, with no strings attached. The city announced Tuesday ...

At long (long, long, long, long, long) last, Gary Dauberman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is here, after a delay so lengthy that it sparked fears that it might become the latest ...

The Dallas Dragons headlined another thrilling week of high school football in the Salem-Keizer area. Dallas, which sat at No. 1 in the 5A rankings coming into this week, erupted for a 51-12 road ...

‘Salem’s Lot (1975), Stephen King’s second novel, imposes the plot of Dracula onto the small-town-with-festering-secrets tradition of Peyton Place. The book has been as influential on contemporary ...