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Haunted England
Jacqueline Simpson, Jennifer Westwood, Jacqueline Simpson And Jennifer Westwood
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141959535
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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Haunted England

The Penguin Book of Ghosts

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Prepare to be haunted, county by county and place by place, by England's most unforgettable ghost stories

Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall

Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt

Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing

Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents

England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141959535
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
Categories:

Praise for Haunted England

Wonderfully chilling

The Times

An enjoyable amble across Britain's phantasmagorical map and a guide to a quirky part of our cultural heritage

Financial Times

It is the rich variety of ghosts that is really striking ... there are the headless, the huntsmen, the disappointed lovers, the penitents, the radiant boys...

Mail on Sunday