Prologue 1. Old Salem by Moonlight 2. An Inconvenient Apparition 3. Wharves and Decline 4. A Melancholy Process of Decay 5. Great the Pain this Monster Must Be In 6. Murder as One of the Fine Arts 7. The Knapps of Salem 8.
The Crowninshields of Salem 9. Vigilance 10. A Damned Eternal Fortune 11. Forever Stained with Blood, Blood, Blood 12. In the Hands of an Angry God 13. Joe Knapp Jr.'s Confession as Transcribed by Henry Coleman 14. The Fiend Has Robbed Justice of Its Victim 15.
An Elaborate Game of Chess 16. Black Dan 17. A Murder of No Ordinary Character 18. The Cry of the People Is for Blood 19. Refuting the Truth 20. The Conclusion of Webster's Summation in the First Trial: Suicide Is Confession 21. A Contagion of Unexampled Popular Frenzy 22. Franklin Dexter's Summation at the Second Trial 23.
Daniel Webster's Summation at the Second Trial 24. The Execution of Frank Knapp 25. Emphatically Encompassed by a Sea of Blood 26. She Must Be the Very Devil 27. The Complaint of the Human Heart 28. Ghosts Appendix: The Last Will and Testament of Captain Joseph White Bibliography Acknowledgments Index.