Ghostly Tales & Hauntings of Northamptonshire

Ghostly Tales & Hauntings of Northamptonshire gathers ghostly and tragic stories from a county shaped by royal conflict, powerful families and a turbulent past. Its subject matter connects reported hauntings with historical figures and episodes, including Witch Finder Matthew Hopkins, Thomas à Becket, the Gunpowder Plot and the imprisonment of a queen.

Bassett presents Northamptonshire as a landscape where dark history and local supernatural tradition overlap. The book’s accounts belong to the county’s remembered past, linking tales of apparitions and other reported disturbances with the people, events and places that have helped give Northamptonshire its enduring reputation for ghost stories.