THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES by William Harrison Ainsworth — 1848 —

INTRODUCTION The Last Abbot of Whalley

I. The Beacon on Pendle Hill

II. The Eruption

III. Whalley Abbey

IV. The Malediction

V. The Midnight Mass

VI. Teter et Fortis Carcer

VII. The Abbey Mill

VIII. The Executioner

IX. Wiswall Hall

X. The Holehouses

BOOK I Alizon Device

I. The May Queen

II. The Black Cat and the White Dove

III. The Asshetons

IV. Alice Nutter

V. Mother Chattox

VI. The Ordeal by Swimming

VII. The Ruined Conventual Church

VIII. The Revelation

IX. The Two Portraits in the Banqueting-Hall

X. The Nocturnal Meeting

BOOK II Pendle Forest

I. Flint

II. Read Hall

III. The Boggart's Glen

IV. The Reeve of the Forest

V. Bess's o' th' Booth

VI. The Temptation

VII. The Perambulation of the Boundaries

VIII. Rough Life

IX. How Rough Lee was defended by Nicholas

X. Roger Nowell and his Double

XI. Mother Demdike

XII. The Mysteries of Malkin Tower

XIII. The Two Familiars

XIV. How Rough Lee was again Besieged

XV. The Phantom Monk

XVI. One O'Clock!

XVII. How the Beacon Fire was Extinguished

BOOK III Hoghton Tower

I. Downham Manor-House

II. The Penitent's Retreat

III. Middleton Hall

IV. The Gorge of Cliviger

V. The End of Malkin Tower

VI. Hoghton Tower

VII. The Royal Declaration concerning Lawful Sports on the Sunday

VIII. How King James Hunted the Hart and the Wild-Boar in Houghton Park

IX. The Banquet

X. Evening Entertainments

XI. Fatality

XII. The Last Hour

XIII. The Masque of Death

XIV. "One Grave"

XV. Lancaster Castle