Joseph Curwen

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A Colonial-era Providence merchant and secret sorcerer who used 'essential saltes' distilled from the dead to interrogate history's great minds for forbidden knowledge, until his neighbors quietly arranged his execution. Two centuries later an unwitting descendant's genealogical research resurrects him in truth, and Curwen wastes no time reclaiming the life, the town, and the body that history took from him.