Devon Ghost Tales

Devon Ghost Tales gathers stories shaped by the county’s oral traditions and landscapes, from windswept moorland and rugged coastlines to moonlit roads. Janet Dowling retells accounts involving a voice beyond the grave, a ghost poised between heaven and hell, and the spectral figures of Viking princes. The stories belong to Devon’s storytelling heritage, where place and atmosphere are closely entwined.

Dowling writes as a local storyteller, preserving the spoken quality of tales that have circulated through generations while giving them a clear literary form. Original drawings by Vicky Jocher accompany the collection, adding visual interpretation to its reports of apparitions, revenants and other unsettling encounters rooted in Devon’s landscape and folklore.