The House in the Fens a Ghost Story (Ghost Stories, #1)

In England during the sixteen hundreds, there was an outbreak of Witch hunting. Most (but not all) of this took part in the remote corner of England known as East Anglia. The government of the time employed people to carry out searches for these unfortunate women, who were accused of being Witches. One such Witch hunter was a man called Mathew Hopkins; the self proclaimed 'Witchfinder General'. In a small village called Manningtree, in Essex, he claimed to have found twenty-three such Witch...