Phantom Ladies

Phantom Ladies gathers reported female apparitions from across Great Britain in an alphabetical, county-by-county format. Andrew Green focuses on the stories attached to particular places, bringing together accounts of nuns, unhappy lovers, actresses and aristocrats alongside less conventional ghostly figures.

The cases also include mothers seen with their babies and a reported highwaywoman, showing how varied Britain’s traditions of female haunting can be. Published in 1977, the book belongs to the classic gazetteer tradition of British ghost writing, presenting local accounts as reports and folklore rather than proven supernatural events. Its compact arrangement makes it a useful record of the ways female figures appear in regional haunting traditions.