*"Here is foam from a mad dog's lips, gather'd beneath the moon's eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!"Historical novelistWilliam Harrison Ainsworthtook the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trial...

*"Here is foam from a mad dog's lips, gather'd beneath the moon's eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!"Historical novelistWilliam Harrison Ainsworthtook the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a "triple decker" novel, The Lancashire Witches *, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed by the Chattox and Demdike families.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway,*Horror Historia * brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.