The Lancashire Witches Book 2

Name: The Lancashire Witches Book 2
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
ISBN: 9781836102335

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Language: English
Length: 222 pages
ISBN: 9781836102335
Published: 10 March 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

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. Ainsworth's second book of curses, desire, and neighbourly terror. Fear chooses its next household.

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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Audiobook · English · Fractal Press9781836100829