Ghost, paranormal and folklore books
Books about ghosts, folklore, witchcraft, paranormal research, dark history and the unexplained across Britain and Ireland.
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 5
Haunted Liverpool 5 gathers more than 40 accounts of reported supernatural incidents and local mysteries from Tom Slemen’s Liverpool series. Its subjects include a vanishing hitch-hiker, the sinister tulpa known as Mister Bill and a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 6
Haunted Liverpool 6 gathers more than 50 reported supernatural stories linked to Liverpool and its surrounding area. The collection includes accounts associated with local people, including stories passed to Tom Slemen after his radio broadcasts,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 7
Haunted Liverpool 7 gathers reported tales of apparitions, poltergeists, premonitions, timeslips and other uncanny incidents linked to Liverpool and Merseyside. Tom Slemen’s seventh volume ranges from domestic disturbances to local legends, presenting stories that move…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 8
Haunted Liverpool 8 gathers reported supernatural stories linked to Liverpool, combining accounts related directly to Tom Slemen with incidents drawn from historical research. The collection moves between local settings, maritime history and tales connected with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool 9
Haunted Liverpool 9 gathers reported paranormal incidents from Liverpool’s past and present, combining ghost stories with darker tales of violence, fate and alleged occult activity. The ninth volume in Tom Slemen’s series includes accounts centred…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool Anthology: A Selection from Haunted Liverpool 1 to Haunted Liverpool 12
Haunted Liverpool Anthology gathers selected accounts from the first 12 volumes of Tom Slemen’s Haunted Liverpool series. The collection centres on reported ghosts, hauntings and strange phenomena connected with Liverpool, bringing together stories that place…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Liverpool Casebook
Haunted Liverpool Casebook gathers reported encounters, legends and uncanny incidents linked to Liverpool and the wider north-west. Tom Slemen includes accounts of timeslips, a day when the city was said to freeze in time, and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted London
Haunted London catalogues reported ghostly and psychic phenomena across the capital, arranging its material as a geographical dictionary of places and cases. Peter Underwood covers churches, theatres, hotels, inns and locations associated with murders, alongside…
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Cover unavailableHaunted London Underground
Haunted London Underground gathers reported ghost stories from stations, abandoned lines and forgotten railway spaces beneath the capital. David Brandon and Alan Brooke set these accounts against the network’s development, including its early railways, closed…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Luton and Dunstable
Haunted Luton and Dunstable gathers reports from across two Bedfordshire towns, covering haunted roads, buildings, open spaces, UFO sightings and locally connected mediums. Paul Adams brings together earlier traditions and modern testimony, including apparitions on…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Maidstone
Haunted Maidstone gathers reports of ghostly activity from Maidstone and the surrounding area, combining previously unpublished accounts with fresh looks at established local cases. Neil Arnold considers reputedly haunted buildings, roads associated with reported apparitions…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Manchester
Haunted Manchester gathers local ghost stories around the city’s streets, buildings and surviving historical landmarks. Flecky Bennett, the performer behind Manchester’s ghost walks, introduces reports and traditions attached to places including Chetham’s Library and Manchester…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Neath
Haunted Neath gathers reported apparitions, strange sightings and unexplained incidents from the town and its surrounding area. Robert King examines stories associated with streets, cemeteries, alehouses and historic sites, including a drowning man off Morfa…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Newcastle
Haunted Newcastle gathers more than 45 reported ghost stories from the city centre and nearby areas, linking folklore and haunting claims to Newcastle’s historic streets and buildings. The accounts range from poltergeists, apparitions and curses…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Newport and the Valleys
Haunted Newport and the Valleys gathers reported paranormal experiences from Newport and the surrounding valleys, combining local research with interviews from first-hand witnesses. Many accounts date from the decade before publication, placing recent testimony alongside…
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Cover unavailableHaunted North Cornwall
Haunted North Cornwall gathers reported apparitions and other uncanny experiences from the county’s northern coast and countryside. Michael Williams covers places including Bodmin Moor, Tintagel, Morwenstow and Bude Castle, setting their stories against the landscapes…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Northumberland
Haunted Northumberland gathers reported accounts from across the county, bringing together apparitions, poltergeist activity, curses, spirits, boggards and other unexplained events. Darren W. Ritson draws on both historical and contemporary sources, presenting local stories rooted…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Nottingham
Haunted Nottingham gathers reports of ghostly appearances, unexplained events and other strange occurrences from the city and its surrounding areas. Andrew Wright presents Nottingham as a place where stories of haunting have become attached to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Oxford
Haunted Oxford gathers reported apparitions and ghost traditions associated with one of England’s most storied cities. Rupert Matthews presents Oxford as a place where colleges, churches, streets and historic buildings have accumulated tales of spectral…
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Cover unavailableHaunted People
Haunted People presents Elliott O'Donnell’s casebook of reported apparitions, drawing on ghost accounts and folklore rather than fictional storytelling. Its subject coverage includes hauntings associated with people, traditions and remembered encounters with the dead. The…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Haunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire gathers reports of ghosts, phantoms, spectres and poltergeists from two neighbouring English counties. Rupert Matthews divides the book into four sections, covering the northern and southern parts of Bedfordshire…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Devon
Haunted Places of Devon gathers reported ghost stories and accounts of haunted locations from across the county. Rupert Matthews focuses on Devon’s places associated with apparitions, lingering legends and local traditions, presenting the material as…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Dorset
Rupert Matthews surveys reported hauntings from across Dorset, bringing together stories attached to houses, ruins, roads, towns and other county locations. The book treats Dorset as a landscape where ghost lore has accumulated around places…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Kent
Haunted Places of Kent gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, linking apparitions and uncanny traditions to recognisable locations. Among its accounts are the alleged ghost of Charles Darwin at Rochester’s Corn Exchange, a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Nottinghamshire
Haunted Places of Nottinghamshire gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, linking apparitions and unsettling incidents to roads, hotels, castles and historic buildings. The accounts range from the tale of Bessie Sheppard, said to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Shropshire
Haunted Places of Shropshire gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, bringing together accounts linked to local buildings, roads and other places. Rupert Matthews presents these tales as a collection of regional haunting traditions,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Warwickshire
Haunted Places of Warwickshire gathers reported ghost stories from across the county, bringing together accounts associated with towns, cities and historic locations. Rupert Matthews includes tales connected with Coventry, Rugby, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick and…
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Rupert Matthews gathers reported hauntings and ghost stories from across Wiltshire, ranging from historic houses and churches to roads, shops and open country. The locations include Malmesbury, Pewsey, Warminster, Salisbury and Swindon, placing each account…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Places of Yorkshire
Organised around Yorkshire’s different areas, this collection brings together accounts of haunted locations from across the county. Andy Owens explores the region through the ghost stories associated with its places, assembling a local guide to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Plymouth
Haunted Plymouth gathers reported ghost stories from the city and its surrounding districts, combining historical traditions with contemporary accounts and investigation records. Its three sections cover the Historic Barbican, the city and locations beyond it,…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Pubs in Devon
Haunted Pubs in Devon gathers reported ghost stories connected with public houses across the county. Drawing on material collected during the authors’ field expeditions, Sally and Chips Barber present pub-based accounts within the wider setting…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Rochester
Haunted Rochester gathers reported ghost stories from the historic Kent city, organising its account around the High Street, Eastgate House, Restoration House, Rochester Cathedral and Rochester Castle. A final section records other locations associated with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Salisbury
Haunted Salisbury gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and spirit encounters from the medieval city and its surrounding hinterland. The cases are linked to historic buildings and familiar local settings, placing Salisbury’s ghost stories within the area’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Scarborough
Haunted Scarborough gathers reported apparitions, local legends and unsettling tales from one of Yorkshire’s best-known seaside resorts. Mark Riley covers stories involving poltergeists, mummies and the ominous figure known as the Headless Man, alongside the…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Scunthorpe
Haunted Scunthorpe gathers reported ghost stories from the town and nearby villages, tracing accounts from the 1700s to cases linked with family homes today. Jason Day includes material from his own case files, including previously…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Sheffield
Haunted Sheffield gathers reported ghost stories told by Steel City Tours’ ghost walkers, Mr and Mrs P Dreadful, placing Sheffield’s pubs, theatres and public buildings at the centre of the book. The accounts include a…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Shrewsbury
Haunted Shrewsbury gathers reported ghost stories from one of Shropshire’s oldest towns, using historical and contemporary sources. Martin Wood includes accounts of poltergeists, first-hand encounters with apparitions and a range of local haunting traditions. Among…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Southampton
Haunted Southampton gathers reports of ghostly apparitions and unexplained occurrences from the city’s history and surrounding area. Penny Legg traces stories attached to historic buildings, former institutions and places shaped by Southampton’s long military and…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Spalding
Haunted Spalding gathers reported ghost sightings, unexplained experiences and paranormal investigations from the Lincolnshire town and its surrounding villages. Gemma King combines local testimony with background on the history of the places involved, including Spalding’s…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Albans
Haunted St Albans gathers reported supernatural experiences from the city and its surrounding area, arranging them by location and setting. Paul Adams covers roads, open spaces, public houses, hostelries, houses and historic buildings, alongside accounts…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Andrews
Haunted St Andrews gathers reported apparitions, poltergeist cases and older supernatural traditions associated with one of Scotland’s most historic towns. Geoff Holder examines the White Lady and the Haunted Tower, including the Victorian mystery of…
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Cover unavailableHaunted St Ives
Haunted St Ives gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and alleged encounters with ghouls and spirits from the Cornish town. Arranged in an A–Z format, Ian Addicoat’s collection brings together both familiar tales and less well-known accounts…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Stevenage
Haunted Stevenage gathers reports of ghostly activity from Old Stevenage, New Stevenage and the surrounding Hertfordshire countryside. Paul Adams covers unexplained sightings, local traditions and attempts to find evidence behind the stories, drawing on both…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Stockton
Haunted Stockton gathers reported ghost stories and supernatural accounts connected with Stockton-on-Tees, drawing on both historical records and contemporary sources. The material includes apparitions, manifestations and other claims of unexplained activity linked to the town…
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Haunted Suffolk
Haunted Suffolk gathers reported apparitions, poltergeist activity and other supernatural encounters from more than 150 locations across the county. Pete Jennings draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together local traditions alongside accounts attributed to…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Sunderland
Haunted Sunderland gathers more than 100 reported ghost stories from Sunderland and nearby settlements, including Cleadon, Boldon, Hylton and Rythorpe. Rupert Matthews covers local traditions and alleged encounters ranging from the Havelok Road poltergeist, linked…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Surrey
Haunted Surrey gathers reported apparitions, hauntings and related supernatural accounts from locations across the county. Rupert Matthews draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together both familiar legends and less widely known stories connected with…
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Cover unavailableHaunted Taverns
Haunted Taverns catalogues British pubs and inns associated with reported apparitions, local legends and stories of unexplained activity. Donald Stuart arranges the entries alphabetically, with a county index that gives the book a practical gazetteer-like…
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