Download Witching Hill by E. W. Hornung. A 1913 ghost and supernatural fiction and crime and mystery work about a haunted district, recurring influence, psychological unease, crime, inheritance, suggestion and Hornung's supernatural mystery sequence. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 formats.
About Witching Hill
Witching Hill by E. W. Hornung is a 1913 ghost and supernatural fiction and crime and mystery work about a haunted district, recurring influence, psychological unease, crime, inheritance, suggestion and Hornung's supernatural mystery sequence. Ideal for readers interested in Raffles, gentleman thieves, crime fiction, Australian settings, romance, thrillers, school stories, supernatural mystery and Hornung's Edwardian popular fiction.
Genres: Ghost and Supernatural Fiction | Crime and Mystery
Why Read Witching Hill?
Witching Hill is worth reading because it shows Hornung's interest in psychological and supernatural unease, where locality, suggestion and hidden influence disturb ordinary life. First published in 1913, the work is concerned with a haunted district, recurring influence, psychological unease, crime, inheritance, suggestion and Hornung's supernatural mystery sequence. Hornung is best remembered for Raffles, but his wider output also includes Australian fiction, romance, school stories, psychological crime, thrillers and wartime non-fiction.
Readers may value the title for its mixture of polish and unease. Hornung often writes about people who stand between respectability and danger: thieves who behave like gentlemen, lovers shadowed by secrets, colonial figures judged by metropolitan standards, young men under pressure, and outwardly orderly households where guilt or suspicion has already entered. His plots can be brisk, but they are often powered by questions of loyalty and honour.
The book is also useful for understanding late Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction. Hornung's career sits close to detective fiction, adventure romance, imperial settings, sporting culture and the short-story market. Modern readers should approach period assumptions critically, especially where empire, class, gender, race or criminality appear. Even so, the work remains historically valuable because it records how readers of the period negotiated admiration for charm, nerve and rule-breaking.
This title adds to the larger E. W. Hornung collection by showing another angle on a writer whose fiction repeatedly tests the boundary between heroism and wrongdoing. Witching Hill can be read for plot, atmosphere, genre history and moral ambiguity, but it is especially rewarding because Hornung makes charm suspect. His best stories ask why readers are drawn to people they know they should distrust.
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