Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The pogrom was triggered by the book 'Malleus Maleficarum', published in 1486. Its detailed instructions for persecuting and annihilating alleged witches triggered a mass hysteria.

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...

The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile for...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegu...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...