Lancashire Witches
The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.
Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike...
The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.
Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike...
