The Lancashire Witches Book 1

Name: The Lancashire Witches Book 1
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
ISBN: 9781836100812

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by: Finian Silverwood
Language: English
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
ISBN: 9781836100812
Published: 16 January 2026
Imprint: Fractal Press

witchcraft
Pendle witches
17th-century England
curses
superstition
Gothic fiction
historical drama
persecution
Reformation
family tragedy

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Description

Abbot John Paslew's refusal to baptize a stranger's child unleashes a curse that binds Pendle families to witchcraft, vengeance, and persecution. Spoken as when Lancashire still asks what fear will buy when superstition rules the hills.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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Ebook · English · Fractal Press9781836102328