Gloucestershire Ghost Tales

Gloucestershire Ghost Tales gathers twenty reported hauntings and ghost legends from across the county and its borders. The settings range from the Forest of Dean and Severn Vale to the Cotswolds, Upper Thames and Bristol, bringing local landscapes into stories of white ladies, monks, miners, priests and poltergeists.

The collection also includes accounts involving Dark Age warriors, Roundhead troopers, phantom narrowboats, animals, unwilling brides and other spectral figures. Anthony Nanson and Kirsty Hartsiotis reshape these often fragmentary traditions into crafted narrative tales, drawing on the atmosphere and storytelling possibilities of the places associated with them. The result is a county-focused anthology of ghostlore rooted in Gloucestershire’s roads, waterways, settlements and rural districts.