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'Witch Hunts' graphic novel takes Bram Stoker Award

Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times has won a Bram Stoker Award.

Writers Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton and artist Greg Chapman's book has taken the 'Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel' honor.

Witch Hunts

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Witch Hunts

"For nearly three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches and subjected to trial, torture, and execution, including being burned alive," reads the book's website.

"This graphic novel examines the background - the methods of the witch hunters, who stood to profit, the brave few who protested, and how the trials finally faded as Enlightenment replaced fear and superstition with reason and science.

"The book examines famed witch hunters Heinrich Kramer, architect of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, Matthew Hopkins, England's notorious 'Witchfinder General', King James I, supposedly the target of assassination by a Scottish coven, the Salem Witch Trials and the last witch trials and executions in Europe."

Joss Whedon also took home an award for his Cabin in the Woods screenplay.

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