More Weight: A Salem Story - by Ben Wickey (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"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.

1692 is a year of terror. In Salem, Massachusetts, Giles and Martha Corey are forced to confront their troubled past when accusations of witchcraft plunge their community into a violent moral panic. Based upon true events, and set in three centuries, More Weight is a unique inquiry into the Salem witchcraft tragedy and the misunderstood city now synonymous with it.

Review Quotes

"The most insightful, beautifully crafted, and impressively researched dramatization of America's founding frenzy that exists in any medium, and a perfect illustration of why bloody-minded Northampton men should never set foot in the New World. An appalling masterpiece." -- Alan Moore

"Blending one century into another, Ben Wickey's gorgeous and stylized More Weight explores the Salem Witchcraft trials of 1692 and their subsequent meaning and message. This powerful graphic novel both intrigues the eye and strikes the heart, revealing the full horrors of what only seem to be familiar stories." -- Marilynne K. Roach, author of Six Women of Salem and The Salem Witch Trials

About the Author

Ben Wickey is a Massachusetts-born artist, writer, and animator. He is one of the contributing illustrators of Alan Moore's The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, the illustrator of Ki Longfellow's The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, and the director of several stop-motion animated short films, including the award-winning The House of the Seven Gables. He lives in California with his beloved wife and cat.