More Weight: A Salem Story
  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781603095600
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 532
  • RRP: $85.00

More Weight: A Salem Story

  • Ben Wickey
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“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.

“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.

In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 is a year of terror. When accusations of witchcraft plunge the community into paranoia and death, curmudgeonly farmer Giles Corey and his great-souled wife Martha are forced to confront their troubled pasts, fighting to hold onto their principles even at the cost of their lives. In the 1860s, famed writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow stroll the streets of Salem together, reflecting on their own dark connections to those wicked days. Today, graphic novelist Ben Wickey wrestles with the complex legacy of “the Witch City” and what it shows us about the best and worst of humanity.

Based on true events, set in three centuries, and hand-drawn over a decade, More Weight is a stunning visual symphony — a unique and profound inquiry into the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they still cast on us all.
  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781603095600
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 532
  • RRP: $85.00
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Praise for More Weight: A Salem Story

“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

possible blurbs incoming from Iain Sinclair, and further experts on the Salem Witch Trians (including Margo Burnes and Emerson W. Baker)

“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

possible blurbs incoming from Iain Sinclair, and further experts on the Salem Witch Trians (including Margo Burnes and Emerson W. Baker)

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