Before Salem Possessed, there were few thoroughly researched works on the Salem witch trials, and only one--Charles Upham's Salem Witchcraft (1867) (available to read in full at the following link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Salem_Witchcraft/729JaFysI7gC?hl=en&gbpv=0)--which dealt directly with the primary source material. The Devil in Massachusetts (1949) by Marion L. Starkey, another account which the authors mention in the Preface, relies heavily on Upham's work. A more recent text is Entertaining Satan (1982) by John Putnam Demos (who happens to be descended from John Putnam of the same Salem Village Putnams of the late seventeenth century that feature in Salem Possessed).
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