Witch Trials

Tag Area: Real-World Event
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #2

The Pact

Frances Conrad learns the dark truth about an unholy pact made by his ancestor from the horse’s mouth itself. —Michael Main
The year is 1693, the month is June, and the day is the fifteenth. Come and watch with me.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Feature Film

The Time Machine

For me, the update to the 1970s took this made-for-TV movie too far away from the original novel. For example, the Traveller (now a rocket scientist called Neil Perry) explains the workings of the machine with gibberish, whereas the original Traveller expressed himself with up-to-date mathematical terminology. The travel to the Salem witch trials and the California gold rush were also off the mark, as was the dreamy Weena who immediately speaks English. —Michael Main
Well, in principle, it utilizes a electromagnetic force field to molecularly reconstruct the space-time continuum.
John Beck (as the traveler) and Priscilla Barnes (as Weena) appear behind a triangular, metal time machine.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Witchcraft Mysteries 6

A Vision in Velvet

  • by Juliet Blackwell
  • (Obsidian Mystery, July 2014) [print · e-book] [Publisher—Goodreads lists the e-book edition with ISBN 9781101627983 as being published by Signet/Penguin, but a preview on Amazon shows the publication under the Kindle edition with that exact ISBN as bering published as An Obsidian Mystery, which is an imprint of the Penguin Group. The preview also notes that the first printing was by Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a dividsion of Penguin Group. For now, we'll go with the preview info and list both the print and the e-book as being Obsidian Mysteries, both published in July 2014.]
To save her pet pig/gargoyle/familiar, shopkeeper and fabric whisperer Lily Ivory must solve a mystery using clues picked up via a traveling cloak that spirits her off to the Salem witch trials. —Inmate Jan
The cape was in the trunk. When I put it on . . . It’s hard to explain, but it was as though I had been transported to another time and place.
A colorful drawing of a young woman with long, unruly hair wearing a cape near a purple tree with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Flashback

After high-powered lawyer Charlie Leroy gets her client cleared from a rape charge by claiming that the accuser’s lacy underwear was consent to have sex, Charlie finds herself transported by a divine cabdriver to historical moments that were key for women’s rights. —Michael Main
Attends . . . si maman n'épouse pas papa, je vais pas naître. Je viens de me tuer.
translate Wait . . . if Mom never marries Dad, I won’t be born. I just killed myself.
Issa Doumbia (as cabdriver Hubert) leans on a cab in front of Caroline Vigneaux (as Charlie), who is surrounded by lots of people from history.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel