Ghost, paranormal and folklore books
Books about ghosts, folklore, witchcraft, paranormal research, dark history and the unexplained across Britain and Ireland.
1,217 books found
Haunted Essex
Haunted Essex gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and first-hand encounters from across the county, using historical and contemporary sources. Carmel King brings together familiar legends and lesser-known local accounts, treating Essex’s haunted heritage as a mixture…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Farnham
Haunted Farnham surveys reported ghost stories and paranormal incidents associated with the Surrey town, beginning with Farnham Castle and its long historical importance. Peter Underwood also considers the parish church, Waverley Abbey, manor houses and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Gardens
Haunted Gardens gathers reported ghost stories linked with gardens in England and Scotland, then extends its survey across continental Europe, the United States and Australasia. The settings range from cultivated grounds and historic estates to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Glasgow
Haunted Glasgow presents a local-history account of reported ghosts, poltergeists and hauntings associated with Scotland’s largest city. Mark Andrew Turner focuses on Glasgow as a place where stories of supernatural disturbance have become linked to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Gloucester
Haunted Gloucester gathers reported apparitions, ghost stories and eerie happenings linked to the city and its historic surroundings. Eileen Fry and Rosemary Harvey include accounts from Gloucester’s old docks, the twelfth-century cathedral, churches, public houses…
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Haunted Gloucestershire gathers reported apparitions and traditional haunting accounts from across the county, arranging them by recurring themes rather than by a single location. Rupert Matthews includes ghosts said to carry messages, phantom monks and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Halifax and District
Kai Roberts gathers the ghostlore of Halifax and the surrounding South Pennines, moving between chapels, mills, taverns and moorland. Boggarts and more recent poltergeist reports sit beside spectral figures and legends of a headless coachman.…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hampshire
Haunted Hampshire gathers almost 100 reported ghostly encounters from across the county, arranging them as a geographical tour through the New Forest, Winchester, Southampton, the Downs, the Test Valley and the hills around Overton. The…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Happenings in Devon
Haunted Happenings in Devon gathers reported ghost and spirit accounts connected with places across Devon. Judy Chard’s short regional study treats these stories as part of the county’s local supernatural lore, linking apparitions and haunting…
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Haunted Happenings: Real Encounters in the UK's Most Haunted Places
Ghost hunter Wayne Spurrier recounts first-person experiences from reportedly haunted locations across the UK and parts of Europe. Mansions, prisons, abandoned hospitals and ancient inns provide the settings for a collection built around investigation nights,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Harbour: The Looe Ghost Guide
Haunted Harbour: The Looe Ghost Guide gathers reported hauntings, local legends, witchcraft traditions and historical oddities from Cornwall’s harbour town and its surrounding landscape. Jonathan Boakes leads the account through the medieval streets of East…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hartlepool and East Durham
Haunted Hartlepool and East Durham gathers reported ghost stories from Hartlepool, the former East Durham mining communities and their surrounding landscape. Historical apparitions sit alongside more recent accounts linked to houses, clubs, schools, roads, ships…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hereford
Haunted Hereford gathers reported ghost stories from the city and surrounding countryside, setting them against the area’s turbulent border history. Hereford’s position between England and Wales provides the historical background for accounts of spectral appearances…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Herefordshire
Rupert Matthews collects reported hauntings and ghost stories from across Herefordshire, connecting supernatural traditions with the county’s historic houses, towns and countryside. The book includes accounts associated with Croft Castle near Leominster, where apparitions have…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Heritage
Haunted Heritage surveys reported hauntings associated with historic places in England, setting ghost stories alongside the buildings, ruins and landscapes to which they belong. The book treats these locations as part of the country’s cultural…
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Cover unavailableHaunted High Wycombe
Haunted High Wycombe gathers reported ghost stories from the Buckinghamshire town and its surrounding district. Eddie Brazil covers apparitions and unexplained incidents linked with roads, woods, open spaces, railway lines, cellars and buildings, including Hughenden…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hostelries of Shropshire
Haunted Hostelries of Shropshire examines reported hauntings in the county’s pubs, inns, hotels and other licensed establishments. Andrew Homer combines newly gathered testimony with traditional stories, beginning with an introduction to Shropshire folklore and the…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hounslow Walks: Four Walking Tours Exploring Hounslow’s Supernatural Secrets
Patsy Langley and Ricardo Sorenti organise Hounslow’s supernatural stories into four walking tours. This illustrated local guide links ghost lore with exploration on foot, offering a compact introduction to the area’s haunted reputation. Published by…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Houses
Haunted Houses examines reported hauntings associated with houses in Britain, bringing together the subject in the concise illustrated format of a Shire Album. It reflects Andrew Green’s interest in ghost sightings, psychical research and the…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Houses of London
Haunted Houses of London gathers Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of reported apparitions and other alleged phenomena attached to London houses, institutions and public spaces. The contents range from Baker Street, Earls Court Road and York Road…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Houses You May Visit
Marc Alexander’s Haunted Houses You May Visit gathers reports of apparitions and other ghostly manifestations linked with historic houses open to the public across Britain. The accounts include spectral figures, screaming skulls, gliding monks and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres
Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres presents a compact collection of reported hauntings, ghost stories and spectre traditions in an illustrated Usborne guide. Its subject matter includes the notorious claims surrounding Borley Rectory and the investigations…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Huddersfield
This collection brings together ghost reports and local traditions from Huddersfield and its surroundings. Kai Roberts draws on older accounts and more recent eyewitness stories to examine apparitions, poltergeist activity and haunted buildings. The stories…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Hull
Haunted Hull gathers reported ghost stories from across the East Yorkshire city, placing its apparitions and poltergeist accounts against Hull’s long history as a port and heavily bombed wartime city. The collection includes tales associated…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Inns
Haunted Inns gathers reports from more than 50 English inns reputed to be haunted, linking each account with the history and legends attached to the building. Marc Alexander’s selection was shaped by three years of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Ipswich
Haunted Ipswich gathers reported encounters from Suffolk’s county town, presenting the material as a ghost tour through its streets and historic places. Pete Jennings covers stories involving ghosts, witches, orbs and poltergeists, alongside accounts of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Ireland: An Atlas of Ghost Stories from Every County
Haunted Ireland gathers 32 ghost stories from across the island, assigning a tale to every county in Ireland. The collection ranges from familiar hauntings, including the Ghost of Loftus Hall and the White Lady of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Isle of Sheppey
Haunted Isle of Sheppey gathers reported apparitions and ghost stories from the Kent island’s marshes, coastline and old buildings. Neil Arnold considers how these distinctive locations have become associated with tales of haunting and other…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Lambeth
Haunted Lambeth gathers reported ghost sightings, poltergeist disturbances and other uncanny incidents from across the south London borough. James Clark arranges the material by area, covering Brixton, Clapham, North Lambeth, Norwood, Stockwell and Streatham, with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Land
Haunted Land examines Britain’s haunted places alongside older ideas about how landscape, memory and spiritual experience may intersect. Paul Devereux considers reported hauntings, ghostly traditions and the notion of spirit ways, placing them beside ancient…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Leeds
Haunted Leeds gathers reported apparitions, manifestations, strange sightings and other unsettling happenings from across the city. Kenneth Goor takes in city-centre streets, surrounding suburbs, churches and public buildings, with accounts linked to theatres, hotels and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Leicester
Haunted Leicester gathers reported ghost stories and unexplained incidents from the city and its surrounding districts. Andrew Wright’s local survey ranges from the Old Town and Castle Park to Braunstone Hall, Old Belgrave and Leicester’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Lincolnshire
Haunted Lincolnshire gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, presenting a broad catalogue of local apparitions, poltergeist activity and spirit encounters. The material ranges from long-established folklore to more recent first-hand accounts, keeping Lincolnshire’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 1
Haunted Liverpool 1 gathers reported ghost stories and other strange encounters from Liverpool and the wider Merseyside area. Tom Slemen draws on accounts sent to BBC Radio Merseyside’s Billy Butler Show, presenting local testimony alongside…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 10
Haunted Liverpool 10 gathers Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported supernatural incidents, unexplained mysteries, violent episodes and grotesque happenings linked to Liverpool and its surroundings. The tenth volume in the series combines ghost lore with stories…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 11
Haunted Liverpool 11 gathers reported supernatural cases and dark local stories from Liverpool and Merseyside. Among its subjects are the ghostly girl associated with the Adelphi Hotel, the bitter apparition known as Screaming Ginny of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 12
Haunted Liverpool 12 gathers reported ghost stories from Liverpool and Merseyside, mixing contemporary incidents with older local traditions. Tom Slemen’s accounts include a security guard’s encounter in an empty office block, the Grey Lady associated…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 13
Haunted Liverpool 13 gathers Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported paranormal incidents, sinister traditions and unexplained happenings linked to Liverpool and the wider North West. Its stories range from a creature said to use mirrors while…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 14
Haunted Liverpool 14 gathers reported encounters with creatures, hostile forces and other disturbing phenomena from Liverpool and nearby districts. Tom Slemen ranges across accounts set hundreds of years ago and incidents presented as belonging to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 15
Haunted Liverpool 15 collects Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported paranormal incidents, unexplained events and dark local mysteries. The stories range from the Childwall burglar who allegedly discovered the remains of a cannibal feast to a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 16
Haunted Liverpool 16 gathers reported supernatural incidents and ghost stories linked to Liverpool, combining apparitions, sinister encounters and tales of uncanny consequences. Tom Slemen’s cases include the Little Rose Girl, a ghostly child said to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 17
Haunted Liverpool 17 gathers reported paranormal cases from Liverpool and surrounding Merseyside, ranging from frightening apparitions to stories of strange creatures and unexplained events. Among the accounts are Tickle the Clown, linked to an alleged…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 18
Haunted Liverpool 18 gathers Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported apparitions, creatures, premonitions and uncanny incidents from Liverpool and its surrounding districts. Among the cases are Amelia, described as a child vampire haunting a house in…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 19
Haunted Liverpool 19 gathers reported ghost stories, timeslip accounts and strange creature traditions from Liverpool and nearby Merseyside locations. Tom Slemen includes claims of a zombie army, phantom monks said to have visited a young…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 2
Haunted Liverpool 2 gathers reported paranormal incidents from Liverpool and the surrounding area, moving beyond conventional ghost stories into accounts of reincarnation, near-death experiences, phantom explosions and timeslips. Among its stranger narratives are a man…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 20
Haunted Liverpool 20 gathers reported encounters and local legends from Liverpool and Merseyside, ranging from ghostly apparitions to folklore with darker consequences. Among the accounts are a 1960s vampire hunt, the death-associated Green Ladies, Menlove…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 3
Haunted Liverpool 3 gathers 49 reported supernatural tales rooted in Liverpool and Merseyside, continuing Tom Slemen’s series of local ghost stories, strange encounters and unexplained incidents. The collection ranges from ominous apparitions to stories attached…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 4
Haunted Liverpool 4 gathers 55 reported cases involving apparitions, premonitions, devils, demons and other paranormal claims. Tom Slemen’s fourth volume ranges beyond conventional ghost stories, including phone calls from the dead, the Three Knocks of…
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