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 unavailable101 Things to Do with a Stone Circle
Geoff Holder examines the many uses, meanings and legends attached to stone circles long after their construction. This is not an account of the prehistoric communities who built them, but a collection of later activities,…
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Cover unavailable13 Dead
Chris Rush delivers a collection of dark tales built around death, fear and the supernatural. The stories move through horror territory that includes ghosts, violent encounters and uncanny situations, offering a varied collection for readers…
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Cover unavailable30 Real Christmas Ghost Stories: True life experiences with ghosts and spirits at Christmas time
Wayland gathers thirty accounts of alleged ghosts and strange events linked with Christmas, drawing on archives from Britain and the United States. Stories include the Missouri Wild Man, a clanking apparition near London and haunted…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories 2: More terrifying real life encounters with ghosts and spirits
The second collection in Wayland’s series presents fifty further witness accounts of alleged ghosts and unusual experiences. Haunted hotels, shadowy figures, road encounters and disturbances in houses appear alongside stories associated with places such as…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories 3: Spirits in the Shadows
The third volume of Wayland’s series gathers fifty personal accounts of alleged supernatural encounters. Its settings include hotels, roads, theatres, historic sites and homes, with stories ranging from Northern Ireland to London. Reports associated with…
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Cover unavailable50 Real Ghost Stories: Terrifying Real Life Encounters with Ghosts and Spirits
MJ Wayland collects fifty accounts of experiences described by their witnesses as encounters with ghosts or spirits. Drawn from years of paranormal research, the stories range across homes, workplaces, roads and other everyday settings. The…
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Cover unavailable800 Years of Haunted Liverpool
800 Years of Haunted Liverpool gathers reported ghost stories and paranormal accounts from across the city and surrounding Merseyside. John Reppion arranges the material geographically, moving through North, South, East and Central Liverpool before widening…
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Cover unavailableA Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches
Bob Curran examines Ireland’s relatively few witchcraft prosecutions alongside the stories of people branded witches, sorcerers or wise women. The book recounts four notable cases, including Dame Alice Kyteler’s 14th-century Kilkenny proceedings, the Islandmagee accusations,…
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Cover unavailableA Cornish Bestiary
A Cornish Bestiary brings together Cornwall’s reported, imagined and traditional creatures from natural history, folklore, ballads, journalism, literature and hoaxes. Luke Thompson places familiar modern legends such as the Owlman of Mawnan Smith and the…
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A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls
A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls examines reported cases involving dolls said to be haunted or cursed, placing famous names such as Robert, Annabelle and Peggy alongside lesser-known figures including Mandy and Okiku. Fiona Dodwell…
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Cover unavailableA Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language
A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language gathers traditional narratives from across Great Britain, presenting them as a substantial reference work rather than a single themed anthology. Katharine Briggs incorporates the F. J.…
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Cover unavailableA Dictionary of English Folklore
A Dictionary of English Folklore brings together more than 1,250 alphabetically arranged entries on England’s traditional beliefs, customs, stories and seasonal observances. Compiled by Jacqueline Simpson with Stephen Roud, it covers subjects ranging from fairies,…
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Cover unavailableA Feast of Folklore
A Feast of Folklore examines the beliefs, customs and stories attached to British food, showing how everyday ingredients became remedies, charms, omens and ritual objects. Ben Gazur considers familiar superstitions, including throwing salt over the…
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Cover unavailableA Field Guide To Irish Fairies
Bob Curran’s guide organises Irish fairy lore around individual beings and traditions, including the grogoch, Grey Man, sheerie, pooka, merrow, banshee, leprechaun and dullahan. It also considers changelings and lesser-known figures, presenting their reported characteristics…
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Cover unavailableA Gallery of Ghosts
A Gallery of Ghosts brings together 19 documented accounts of reported paranormal experience, including apparitions, psychic encounters and three poltergeist cases. The anthology opens with an introductory dialogue involving Rosalind Heywood and draws on accounts…
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Cover unavailableA Ghost Hunter's Handbook
A Ghost Hunter’s Handbook is an introductory guide to investigating reported ghosts and hauntings, written for younger readers but suited to anyone beginning their own research. Peter Underwood sets out practical questions for witnesses, suggestions…
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Cover unavailableA Ghostly Almanac of Devon and Cornwall
Nicola Sly arranges reported ghost sightings and other paranormal accounts from Devon and Cornwall month by month. The stories range from apparitions in streets, buildings and churchyards to local legends attached to particular sites and…
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A Good House for Children
Two families, separated by four decades, move into the Reeve on the Dorset cliffs and find that the house seems to threaten their children. Kate Collins’ gothic debut alternates between Orla’s present-day family and Lydia’s…
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Cover unavailableA Gothic Cookbook
A Gothic Cookbook examines how food functions in 13 classic Gothic and horror tales, treating meals, ingredients and appetites as part of each story’s meaning. Alessandra Pino brings scholarly knowledge of food and the Gothic,…
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Cover unavailableA Guide to Ancient Sites in Britain
A Guide to Ancient Sites in Britain lists more than 126 prehistoric and ancient locations across the country, from the Isles of Scilly to Orkney and Shetland. Each entry provides a map reference and a…
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Cover unavailableA Haunted Experiment
A Haunted Experiment examines the origins, theories and practical use of four paranormal investigation methods. Penny Griffiths-Morgan looks beyond instructions for conducting experiments, asking who developed them, what inspired them and how their procedures have…
View book details →A Haunted Land: Ireland's Ghosts
Bob Curran’s book gathers Irish accounts of ghosts and hauntings, ranging from wraith-like apparitions to more solid, threatening figures. It considers reports associated with buildings, families and particular places, showing how spirits may be said…
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A Haunting in Harborne: A True Story of Fear, Family and Survival
Joanne Donaldson’s memoir recounts the frightening experiences her family says it endured in a Victorian home in Harborne during the 1970s and early 1980s. Told from personal memory and supported by recollections from others who…
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Cover unavailableA History of Goblins
Matt King traces the goblin from medieval belief to modern fantasy, following a creature that has shifted between demon, fairy, household nuisance and pop-culture icon. A History of Goblins explores how goblins have appeared in…
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Cover unavailableA History of the World in 100 Tales
A History of the World in 100 Tales brings together 100 myths, folk tales, legends and urban myths from five continents. Sharon Jacksties moves across time, from early creation stories to traditions shaped by later…
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Cover unavailableA Host of Hauntings
A Host of Hauntings records Peter Underwood’s quarter-century of psychic investigation through reports of seances, unexplained voices, curious odours, mysterious noises and other alleged phenomena. The book presents these experiences as investigated accounts rather than…
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Cover unavailableA Manifestation of Monsters
A Manifestation of Monsters gathers reported mystery creatures, legendary beasts and contentious animals under the broad heading of “monster”. Karl P. N. Shuker ranges beyond conventional cryptozoology, bringing together accounts of Nessie, Bigfoot, the chupacabra,…
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A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof
Roger Clarke traces five centuries of Western ghost stories, reported sightings and attempts to establish whether spirits exist. The book considers how hauntings are shaped by the stories told about them, and asks what witnesses…
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Cover unavailableA People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset
A People Bewitched examines belief in witchcraft and magic across 19th-century Somerset, where accusations could attach blame for illness, death and misfortune affecting people and animals. Davies presents these beliefs as part of local social…
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Cover unavailableA Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the County of Monmouth and the Principality of Wales
Edmund Jones gathers reported apparitions from Monmouthshire and elsewhere in Wales, arranging much of the material by parish and locality. Accounts connected with Aberystruth, Bassaleg and other parts of the county sit alongside further Welsh…
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Cover unavailableA Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe
A Treasury of British Folklore gathers British customs, superstitions and legends, linking inherited beliefs to the landscapes and communities that shaped them. Dee Dee Chainey ranges from fairy lore and folk healing to witches, alchemy…
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Cover unavailableA Wee Guide to the Haunted Castles of Scotland
A Wee Guide to the Haunted Castles of Scotland gathers reported hauntings and ghostly traditions associated with Scotland’s castles. Martin Coventry’s compact guide focuses on the stories attached to historic strongholds, from apparitions and lingering…
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Cover unavailableAbduction
Abduction examines more than 200 documented reports of alleged UFO kidnappings, treating them as claims requiring investigation rather than established encounters. Jenny Randles considers how such accounts have been recorded, interpreted and debated within UFO…
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Cover unavailableAberdeen's Haunted Heritage
Graeme Milne explores Aberdeen's haunted reputation through stories of ghosts, apparitions and unexplained events associated with the Granite City. Drawing on local history and paranormal tradition, the book brings together cases from buildings, streets and…
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Cover unavailableAberdeenshire Folk Tales
Aberdeenshire Folk Tales gathers stories rooted in the county’s hills, glens, castles, rivers, coastline and city. Grace Banks and Sheena Blackhall include legends of the Maidenstone, Knock Castle, Kildrummy Castle, Drum Castle and the Curse…
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Cover unavailableAbove Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up
Above Top Secret examines reported UFO incidents across several countries, concentrating on claims that governments and security agencies concealed information about them. Timothy Good brings together witness testimony, official reports, documentary material and photographic evidence,…
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Cover unavailableAccused: British Witches throughout History
Accused: British Witches throughout History presents the stories of 11 women accused of witchcraft across the British Isles. Willow Winsham traces these cases from 14th-century Ireland to 20th-century Hampshire, asking why accusations arose, who pursued…
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Cover unavailableAdventures in Nature
Adventures in Nature brings together original stories and traditional tales with seasonal ways for families to spend time outdoors. Organised around the Wheel of the Year, its entries connect storytelling with close attention to the…
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Cover unavailableAdventures in Time: Encounters with the Past
Adventures in Time examines reports of retrocognition: experiences in which people appear to encounter scenes, surroundings or events belonging to the past. Andrew MacKenzie considers several direct accounts, including the celebrated 1901 Versailles incident, when…
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Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence for Life After Death
Colin Wilson examines claims that consciousness may survive bodily death, bringing together psychical research, case histories and arguments from psychology. The book considers near-death and out-of-body experiences alongside mediumship, apparitions, telepathy, precognition and reported communication…
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Cover unavailableAlbion: Guide to Legendary Britain
Jennifer Westwood’s gazetteer gathers Britain’s legendary places, stories and traditional beliefs, arranging them through regional coverage of England, Scotland and Wales. Its entries connect folklore with landscapes, buildings, monuments and local history, making room for…
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Cover unavailableAlien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth
Alien Base examines worldwide reports of encounters with alleged extraterrestrial beings, beginning in the early 20th century. Timothy Good considers accounts describing different kinds of visitors, arguing that reported appearances are more varied than familiar…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact
Alien Contact presents Timothy Good’s investigation into alleged UFO sightings, encounters and contact between humans and extraterrestrial beings. Drawing on interviews with military, intelligence, scientific and aviation personnel, it examines claims about recovered spacecraft, alien…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact: The First Fifty Years
Alien Contact: The First Fifty Years presents a chronological account of alleged alien contact from 1947 onwards, beginning with the Roswell Incident and tracing reported encounters across the following five decades. Jenny Randles considers how…
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Cover unavailableAlien Contact: Window on Another World
Alien Contact: Window on Another World centres on the Sunderland family, whose reported experiences took place in Deeside, North Wales. The account considers claims that several members of one family encountered something they understood as…
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Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience
Alien Dawn examines documented reports of UFO sightings and alleged contact experiences, while placing them alongside a wider range of anomalous claims. Colin Wilson considers poltergeists, lake monsters, ancient folklore and time slips, suggesting that…
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Alien Liaison
Alien Liaison examines claims that extraterrestrial spacecraft have landed or crashed on Earth, and that the United States government concealed recovered vehicles while attempting to reproduce their technology. Timothy Good builds his account around interviews…
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Alien Update
Alien Update gathers reported UFO sightings, alleged alien encounters and claims of government involvement from Britain and abroad. Timothy Good brings together accounts from an international field, including a large object seen over Montreal and…
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