Fiction books set in Salem

The following is a list of novels, or fiction books set in Salem.

Brunonia Barry The Lace Reader (2009) and The Map of True Places (2010) and The Fifth Petal (2017)

Robert Booth Death of an Empire (2011)

Russell Gordon Carter A Patriot Lad of Old Salem (1925)

Megan Chance Suzannah Morrow (2002)

Maryse Conde I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem (1992)

Robin Cook Acceptable Risk (1994)

Richard F. Curran Salem Three Hundred (1992)

Rose Earhart The Diary of Dorcas Good: Child Witch of Salem (1998) and Salem Ghosts (1998)

Mildred Buchanan Flagg A Boy of Salem (1939)

Esther Forbes A Mirror for Witches (c1928, 2008)

Jean Fritz Early Thunder (1967)

Marjory Hall The April Ghost (1975)

Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Katharine Howe The Physick book of Deliverance Dane (2009)

John Jennings The Salem Frigate, A Novel (1946)

Kathleen Kent The Heretic's Daughter (2009)

Matthew J. Konevich The Rousseau House: A Novel (2002)

Kathryn Lasky Beyond the Burning Time (1994)

Jean Lee Latham Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (1955)

Pauline Bradford Mackie The Salem Belle; a tale of 1692 (1898)

Lucy Foster Madison Maid of Salem Town (1906)

Anna Myers Time of the Witches (2009)

James Otis The Armed Ship America; or When we Sailed from Salem (1900)

Henry Peterson Dulcibel (1907)

Ann Lane Petry Tituba of Salem Village (c1964)

Margaret Press Elegy for a Thief: a Detective Sergeant Gabriel Dunn mystery (1993)

Harold Putnam The Slave Trader's Wife, 1627-1666 (2003)

Harold Putnam Salem Lady: a Fictional Historical Account of the Settling of Salem in 1626 (2001)

Mildred I. Reid Devil's Handmaidens (1951)

Ann Rinaldi A Break with Charity: a Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1992)

Frederick Sterling A Fair Witch (1911)

Francis Patrick Theriault Michael's Way (2005)

Kathryn Wesley Salem Witch Trials (2002)

See Also

Bewitched Girls and Seafaring Boys Streets of Salem blog