Marion Gibson

About The Author

Marion Gibson is a bestselling author and historian of witchcraft and magic. In addition to her first trade book, Witchcraft, Marion has published eight academic books on witches in history and literature, edited five books, and published many articles on witches and magic. Emerita Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, she lives in Devonshire, England.

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Books by Marion Gibson

Witchland

A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Marion Gibson

"It’s incredible, reading the histories Gibson has assembled, to recognize how puny, how obscure, were these men who kick-started a persecution that would spread across Europe and the Atlantic—and which arguably persists today." —The New York Times Book Review

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Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

By Marion Gibson

National Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonizatio...

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