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| Preface | |
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| "A Biography of a Terrible But Perfectly Normal Superstition" | |
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| The Origins of European Witchcraft | |
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| The Development of European Witchcraft | |
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| The Great European Witch-hunt | |
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| A Summary View of Witch-hunts in England | |
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| "Having Familiarity with the Devil" | |
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| Witch-hunts in Seventeenth-Century America | |
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| Witch-hunts in Seventeenth-Century New England | |
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| Some Notable Witch Trials in Seventeenth-Century New England | |
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| The Pattern of Witch-hunt Activity in Seventeenth-Century New England | |
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| "The Evil Hand" Is upon Them | |
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| A Glimpse at Salem's Past | |
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| The First Signs of the Devil | |
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| The Hearings Begin | |
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| "Is Not This a Brand Plucked From the Burning?" | |
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| The Cases of Martha and Giles Corey and Dorcas Good | |
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| The Case of Rebecca Nurse | |
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| Deodat Lawson's Lecture Day Sermon | |
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| Sarah Cloyce Is Charged | |
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| Mary Easty Is Summoned | |
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| The Pace Quickens | |
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| "If They Are Let Alone We Should All Be Devils and Witches" | |
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| The Cases of Elizabeth and John Proctor | |
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| Mary Warren Tries to Recant | |
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| Bridget Bishop and Abigail Hobbs Are Charged | |
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| Seven of the Nine Are Formally Charged | |
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| The Ordeal Begins for Mary and Philip English | |
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| The "Black Minister" Is Apprehended | |
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| Dorcas Hoar Is Jailed | |
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| "God Will Deliver Us Out of the Hands of Unmerciful Men" | |
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| The Case of George Jacobs Sr. | |
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| John Willard Changes Sides | |
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| Daniel Andrew Is Charged | |
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| The Carys Escape | |
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| John Alden Is Arrested | |
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| The Andover Witch-hunt | |
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| "God Will Give You Blood to Drink" | |
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| The Court of Oyer and Terminer Is Established | |
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| Bridget Bishop Is Tried | |
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| The Court Completes Its First Session | |
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| The First Mass Execution and Its Effects | |
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| "What a Sad Thing It Is to See Eight Firebrands of Hell Hanging There" | |
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| The Case of George Burroughs | |
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| The Proctors Are Condemned | |
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| The Case of George Jacobs Sr., John Willard, and Martha Carrier | |
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| The Hangings of August 19 | |
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| The Trials of September: The Cases of Martha Corey and Mary Easty | |
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| The Ordeal of Giles Corey | |
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| The Mood in September 1692 | |
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| The Confessions of 1692 | |
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| "It Were Better That Ten Suspected Witches Should Escape, Than That One Innocent Person Should Be Condemned" | |
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| Voices Are Raised in Opposition to the Trials | |
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| Phips Dismisses the Court of Oyer and Terminer | |
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| The Jails Are Emptied | |
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| The Superior Court of Judicature | |
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| The Magistrates and the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Guilty As Charged? | |
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| "Ruined in the Mistaken Management of the Terrible Affair Called Witchcraft" | |
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| Cotton Mather and His "Wonders of the Invisible World" | |
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| Salem in Ruins | |
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| The Repenting Begins | |
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| Settling Up | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Select Bibliography | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |