The English Ghost

Ackroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle

Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday

A winning compendium

Daily Telegraph

This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways

Roger Clarke, Independent

Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches

Tina Jackson, Metro

A fascinating anthology of sightings of ghosts in England over the centuries

Andrew Lycett, Literary Review

A rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights

New Statesman

Everybody loves a good ghost story and this selection of spooky sightings, both scary and comical, will certainly satisfy an appetite for eerie reading

Daily Express

The stories have a pleasing strangeness, even, or perhaps especially if one does not believe in ghosts

Independent on Sunday

The story of the phantom hitchhiker did give me the creeps

Colin Waters, Herald

He has found some sterling stories. It's for life, not just for Hallowe'en

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