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
Cover unavailableThe Golden Bough
James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging study of magic, ritual and religion, beginning with the priestly king of Diana’s grove at Nemi. From this starting point, Frazer compares beliefs and customs across…
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Cover unavailableThe Good Ghost Guide
The Good Ghost Guide is a gazetteer of more than 1,000 reported hauntings, ghost sightings, legends and other unexplained phenomena across England, Scotland and Wales. John Brooks presents the material as a practical guide to…
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Cover unavailableThe Grail
The Grail examines the legendary vessel through Christian tradition, medieval romance and later interpretations of the quest. Andrew Sinclair considers stories associating it with the Last Supper and Joseph of Arimathea, alongside romances by writers…
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Cover unavailableThe Grail: Quest for the Eternal
John Matthews traces the Grail from the origins and development of its legend through its recurring Arthurian themes and spiritual meanings. The book considers Mary and the Grail, the stone vessel, alchemy, the temple of…
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Cover unavailableThe Great Ghost Hunter
The Great Ghost Hunter gathers reported encounters and legends from Elliott O'Donnell’s long career as a writer and investigator of alleged hauntings. The collection draws on more than 60 years of personal investigations, bringing together…
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Cover unavailableThe Great Scottish Witch-Hunt
The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt examines the most intense phase of Scotland’s witch persecutions, focusing on the years 1658–1662. Maxwell-Stuart considers how accusations brought women and men before the authorities, with some condemned to strangulation or…
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Cover unavailableThe Green Man
Kathleen Basford’s study examines the Green Man as the leafy or foliate head found widely in medieval church carvings. It considers how medieval ideas about nature shaped the image, while tracing associated themes of death,…
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Cover unavailableThe Green Man in Britain
The Green Man in Britain examines how the modern idea of the Green Man developed from foliate heads and related carvings in British churches and cathedrals. Fran and Geoff Doel consider the possible meanings attached…
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The Green Man: Myth and Reality
Imogen Corrigan explores the foliate heads carved into churches across Britain, comparing their many forms and the contexts in which they appear. Her illustrated guide looks closely at the history and interpretation of the figure…
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Cover unavailableThe Green Man: Spirit of Nature
The Green Man: Spirit of Nature examines the leafy figure as a symbol of nature, fertility and wildness, tracing his changing forms across folklore and art. John Matthews follows related traditions from ancient agrarian cultures…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen
The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen surveys the Granite City through its folklore, historic curiosities and reports of unexplained events. Geoff Holder covers magic, witchcraft, superstitions and urban legends alongside gargoyles, graveyards, prehistoric burial sites, stone…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Aberdeenshire
The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeenshire surveys the county’s uncanny places, old stories and reported mysteries, from ancient monuments to more recent events. Stone circles and castles appear alongside sites associated with witchcraft, fairy hills, eerie…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Arran
The Guide to Mysterious Arran gathers reports, traditions and historical curiosities from across the Isle of Arran. Geoff Holder covers the 1889 Arran Murder, the reputed healing stone of St Molaise, traditions linking the island…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Glasgow
The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow surveys the city’s legends, reported hauntings, relics and darker historical curiosities in a street-by-street format. Geoff Holder covers gargoyles, hidden archaeological features, Glasgow Cathedral, the Necropolis and museums, while tracing…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Iona and Staffa
The Guide to Mysterious Iona and Staffa brings together reported supernatural experiences, folklore and curious traditions from two Hebridean islands. Geoff Holder considers stories involving fairies, martyrs, Celtic gods, telepathy, exorcism, magic, druids, witches, mermaids,…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness & the Inverness Area
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers reports, traditions and historical accounts linked to Loch Ness and the Inverness area. Its subjects range from Celtic gods, saints and martyrs to telepathy, exorcism, magic, mermaids and demons, drawing on…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Perthshire
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers Perthshire’s reported mysteries, folklore and oddities, arranging them by geographical location across the county. Its subjects range from standing stones, tombstones, gargoyles and archaeological curiosities to accounts of ghosts, fairies and…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Skye & Lochalsh
Geoff Holder’s guide gathers reports, legends and historical traditions from across Skye, Raasay, nearby islands and mainland Lochalsh. Its regional entries range from the dark corries of the Cuillins and coastal caves to castles, ancient…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to Mysterious Stirlingshire
The Guide to Mysterious Stirlingshire surveys the county’s ancient sites, archaeological curiosities and historic buildings, linking them with local stories and traditions. Stirling Castle and Dunblane Cathedral appear alongside strange carvings, stone circles, healing wells…
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Cover unavailableThe Guide to the Mysterious Lake District
The Guide to the Mysterious Lake District gathers accounts of curiosities, wonders and reported mysteries from across Cumbria’s Lake District. Geoff Holder places these stories within the region’s distinctive landscape, bringing together material connected with…
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Cover unavailableThe Hag of the Dribble and Other True Ghosts
The Hag of the Dribble and Other True Ghosts gathers accounts presented as true hauntings from Elliott O'Donnell’s files, with its subject matter rooted chiefly in English ghost lore and demonology. The collection belongs to…
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Cover unavailableThe Hanging Pit: The Haunting of Bodmin Jail
Richard Estep’s The Hanging Pit examines Bodmin Jail in Cornwall, a former prison associated with more than 50 hangings and numerous reports of haunting. The book sets the site’s reputation against its history, including the…
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Cover unavailableThe Hangman, The Hound and Other Hauntings: A Gazetteer of Welsh Ghosts
Thomas Corum Caldas’s gazetteer gathers reported hauntings associated with places across Wales, organising its material by location rather than presenting a continuous regional history. Entries are arranged alphabetically within five sections covering pubs and hotels,…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted City
The Haunted City gathers supernatural stories linked to Liverpool, setting them alongside the city’s conventional history. Tom Slemen focuses on an overlooked strand of local storytelling, where reported hauntings, strange encounters and other paranormal incidents…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Homes of Hull
Mike Covell examines two centuries of reports about allegedly haunted homes across Hull. Victorian properties in the east and west of the city feature alongside the well-known house at 39 De Grey Street. Historical records,…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Inns
Hull’s pubs and inns supply the setting for this collection of haunting investigations. Mike Covell follows their changing histories through newspaper reports, archival records, maps and photographs, then considers the ghost stories attached to them.…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Ghosts and Legends of Wiltshire
Katy Jordan’s study brings together Wiltshire folklore, ghost reports and legends attached to the county’s landscape. Its subject matter includes local traditions, remembered supernatural encounters and stories whose meanings have shifted over time. Among the…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North Two: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
The second Haunted North collection returns to Aberdeen and the surrounding region with further accounts from Graeme Milne’s investigations. Schools, community centres and public buildings feature among the locations examined. Witnesses describe apparitions, poltergeist disturbances…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted North: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East
Graeme Milne collects paranormal tales from Aberdeen and the north-east of Scotland, ranging from haunted buildings and ghostly apparitions to local supernatural traditions. It is a regional survey of the stories and places that have…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Pub Guide
The Haunted Pub Guide records reported hauntings associated with pubs and other drinking establishments across Great Britain. Guy Lyon Playfair combines descriptions of the premises with background history, bringing together familiar older cases and more…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Realm
The Haunted Realm brings together Simon Marsden’s black-and-white photographs of British locations linked with ghost stories, witchcraft and other uncanny traditions. Its subjects include old houses, castles, ruins, graveyards and neglected sites where apparitions or…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted Realms of Surrey and Hampshire
John S Tantalon turns his attention south to the haunted landscapes of Surrey and Hampshire. The collection brings together ghost stories, local legends and unsettling histories from places including Guildford, Farnham, Aldershot and the Isle…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts
Owen Davies traces how ghosts have been perceived, encountered and discussed from the medieval period to the present. Rather than assembling a catalogue of famous hauntings, he examines the social settings in which apparitions are…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Alma Fielding
The Haunting of Alma Fielding reconstructs a reported 1938 poltergeist case in suburban Croydon, where crockery and eggs were said to fly, jewellery appeared on Alma’s fingers, and white mice emerged from her handbag. The…
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The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story
Sean O’Connor recounts the reported haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex, beginning with Eric and Mabel Smith’s arrival in 1928 and the disturbing incidents they described. A skull found in a cupboard, unexplained movements, strange…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Cashen's Gap
The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap records Harry Price and R. S. Lambert’s investigation of Gef, the alleged talking mongoose reported at an isolated farmhouse on the Isle of Man. The case centred on the Irving…
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Cover unavailableThe Haunting of Willington Mill
The Haunting of Willington Mill reconstructs the nineteenth-century reports surrounding a mill and mill house near Wallsend, where witnesses described unexplained noises, apparitions and poltergeist activity. The accounts include disturbances associated with the Procter family…
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Cover unavailableThe Hero in Irish Folk History
The Hero in Irish Folk History examines how heroic figures are remembered, shaped and interpreted within Irish folklore and folk history. Dáithí Ó hÓgáin considers legends associated with Irish heroes alongside the historical ideas, social…
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Cover unavailableThe Heyday of Mental Mediumship 1880s-1930s
Alan Gauld examines the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, when mental mediumship became a sustained subject of investigation in Britain, Europe and the United States. The book follows the development of organised psychical…
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Cover unavailableThe Hidden Powers of Animals
The Hidden Powers of Animals examines the remarkable abilities and behaviour of creatures ranging from insects and amphibians to birds, mammals and marine life. Karl P. N. Shuker considers how animals sense, communicate, navigate and…
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Cover unavailableThe History & Mystery of Parapsychology
The History & Mystery of Parapsychology surveys extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, hauntings and near-death experiences through their historical, scientific and psychological contexts. Steve Higgins considers how researchers have investigated claims of telepathy, mind over matter and…
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Cover unavailableThe Horse in Myth and Legend
The Horse in Myth and Legend examines the horse’s place in folklore, belief and storytelling, with particular attention to Viking, Celtic and Christian traditions. Sophie Jackson considers magical horses, unicorns, spectral mounts and tales of…
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Cover unavailableThe Humber Monster
This investigation traces reports of the Humber Monster from accounts in the 1920s and 1930s to later sightings and renewed public attention. Covell follows witnesses and searches along the Humber Estuary and Yorkshire coast, examining…
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Cover unavailableThe Indefinite Boundary
The Indefinite Boundary examines the relationship between matter and spirit through Guy Lyon Playfair’s review of evidence for psychic phenomena. The book considers claims that appear to challenge a strictly material explanation of human experience,…
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Cover unavailableThe Jacobites and the Supernatural
The Jacobites and the Supernatural examines how occult beliefs, prophecies and folklore became entangled with the Jacobite Risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. Geoff Holder considers witchcraft, spirits, portents, prodigies, curses and magical talismans…
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Cover unavailableThe Journal of a Ghosthunter
The Journal of a Ghosthunter follows Simon Marsden on a year-long search for reported supernatural sites, beginning in southern Ireland and travelling through the British Isles, France and Germany to Transylvania. Castles, palaces and ruins…
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Cover unavailableThe Karloff Compendium: The Films, TV, Radio, Theatrical Work and More of Boris Karloff
Stephen Jacobs surveys Boris Karloff’s work across cinema, television, radio and the stage in an illustrated guide to the horror actor’s career. More than 900 images, including rare stills, posters and material from Karloff’s own…
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Cover unavailableThe Killamarsh Poltergeist
The Killamarsh Poltergeist recounts Hazel and Gary Price’s reported experiences in an ordinary home in Killamarsh, North East Derbyshire. The disturbances began in 2012, when they returned to find their dining room disrupted: fruit had…
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