Shropshire Folk Tales

Amy Douglas gathers thirty traditional stories from across Shropshire, shaped by the county’s fields, hedgerows, villages, market towns and wilder hills. The collection includes tales of macabre events, magic, otherworlds and local history, alongside stories marked by humour, wit and unease.

Among the landscape-bound traditions is the Wrekin, whose familiar outline and seasonal walking customs have helped attach stories to the place. Douglas approaches these accounts as a storyteller, preserving their links with local speech, memory and oral tradition. The result is a varied portrait of Shropshire folklore, moving between stories that amuse, unsettle and reflect how communities have understood the places around them.