Shadows in the Nave

Shadows in the Nave presents reported hauntings associated with 75 churches, chapels and churchyards across England. The book considers the histories of these religious buildings alongside ghost stories and local traditions attached to them, bringing together accounts from places where worship, burial and folklore overlap.

Co-written by Peter Underwood, Paul Adams and Eddie Brazil, it combines site-based research with illustrations of the featured locations. The subjects range from church interiors and chapels to the surrounding churchyards, where apparitions, lingering legends and other claimed manifestations have become part of local tradition. The result is a focused survey of England’s haunted religious heritage, treating each location as both a historic place and a repository of reported supernatural experience.