The Ghosts of Soho: Tales of the Haunted Quarter and Its Restless Spirits

The Ghosts of Soho gathers legends, interviews, anecdotes and half-remembered tales from one of London’s most storied districts. Ima von Wenden approaches Soho through fieldwork, walking its streets, speaking with local people and recording the folklore attached to its buildings, lanes and social history.

Rather than treating every account as proof of haunting, the book presents Soho as a living narrative shaped by memory, storytelling and place. Its portrait includes the neighbourhood’s ghost traditions alongside the wider legends that give the area its enduring identity, preserving fragments of contemporary urban folklore that might otherwise disappear.