More Weight: A Salem Story -- Ben Wickey, Paperback

"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.

1692 is a year of terror. In Salem, Massachusetts, Giles and Martha Corey are forced to confront their troubled past when accusations of witchcraft plunge their community into a violent moral panic. Based upon true events, and set in three centuries, More Weight is a unique inquiry into the Salem witchcraft tragedy and the misunderstood city now synonymous with it.

Author: Ben Wickey
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Published: 09/23/2025
Pages: 532
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781603095600

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2025

About the Author
Ben Wickey is a Massachusetts-born artist, writer, and animator who graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. He is one of the contributing illustrators of Alan Moore and Steve Moore's The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, the illustrator of Ki Longfellow's The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, and the director of several stop-motion animated short films, including the award-winning The House of the Seven Gables. In 2025, after a decade of development, he made his solo graphic novel debut with More Weight: A Salem Story. He lives in California with his beloved wife and cats.