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The Lancashire Witches Book 2

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
7 hours 24 minutes
ISBN
9781836100829
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • witchcraft
  • Pendle witches
  • 17th-century England
  • curses
  • superstition
  • Gothic fiction
  • historical drama
  • persecution
  • Reformation
  • family tragedy

Description

Alizon Device and the Assheton household are drawn deeper into Pendle's witch feud as Demdike, Chattox, and rival claims of sorcery tighten around love and land. Spoken as when Book Two still asks whose charm is prayer and whose is poison.

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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