“Thence I proceeded to Hull-Street, and up the steps to that fascinating necropolis which thro’ some singular fate I had never before seen—the Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. Here are interr’d some of the most illustrious Colonial dead of the Province, including the Mathers […].”

#LovecraftWitchcraft

H. P. #Lovecraft was keenly interested in the phenomenon of witchcraft and witch trials, in part because… the twisted and dark turns of history had connected his own family with the fate of the women tragically sentenced to death in Salem.

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