I don’t have anything new as far as material to add, but I’m over here waving my hand as to curriculum writing. I’m spending my summer writing curriculum for the two classes I proposed at the end of the school year, and revamping curriculum for two others. sigh. I think it is mainly a myth that teachers don’t work year round.
No shit. I re-write my AP curriculum every summer, based on how my kids did and where the weakness show up. Not to mention having to prep new debate cases/lessons/theory lectures every time we switch topics.
But something like your AP class is an existing one for which, presumably, the curriculum just needs to tweaked. This one is a brand-new class, and it’s not at all clear that there is enough material available and that you can get enough copies of the stories or novels for each student. (Some of what’s been suggested may be out of print.) So it seemed premature to schedule the class. In any case, I apologize for the hijack.
No, the hijack was appropriate. The curriculum should be written and board-approved before the class ever gets close to the master schedule. To do it any other way is idiotic (so it was done by administrators, probably at the district office). 
Actually, given the subject matter, I’m sure that you’d want to be especially careful to get things approved before someone objects to material on “satanic” grounds.
Are the book or movie of Bradbury’s SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES set in a particular state?
I believe it is in the Midwest.
Good book and film, though.
For details, see Lovecraft Country.
Compare Campbell Country.
For non-fiction, most of the primary sources for the Salem Witchcraft trials (and other witch trials- Salem wasn’t the first and only place in New England history to have witch trials, they just had the most in terms of numbers and notoriety) are online. All sorts of descriptions and info about Satan in New England there.
Washington Irving was a New Yorker, but “The Devil and Tom Walker” has a New England setting.
Too bad the “Jersey Devil” isn’t in New England.
The Devil never actually appears in The Scarlet Letter, but he’s certainly invoked enough.
I think you meant to use this link:
The Man in the Black Suit is Stephen King’s version of this kind of tale.
That’s the one I almost posted about earlier but then decided that
the devil’s insinuation that given his father was the type of guy who “needed a warm place to stick it” and not too particular at that, it would mean being molested by Pa if Ma died probably wouldn’t go over big in a high school class.