Explore books about ghosts, hauntings, folklore, witchcraft and paranormal history across England. From famous haunted cities to local legends and county traditions, this collection can be narrowed by region, county, town and subject.
427 books found
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 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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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 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 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 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 unavailableAnnie Chapman – Wife, Mother, Victim: The Life and Death of a Victim of Jack the Ripper
Mike Covell reconstructs Annie Chapman’s life through family history, contemporary accounts and historical records. The book follows her experiences as a wife and mother before examining her death and her place in the Whitechapel murder…
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Cover unavailableAnnisons
Annisons in Hull has served as a funeral parlour, police horse stable and photography business, on a site associated with the old North Blockhouse. Covell draws on more than a decade of research to investigate…
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Cover unavailableAround Haunted Manchester
Around Haunted Manchester gathers source material on reported hauntings, legends and myths associated with locations within Manchester’s borders. Peter Portland includes accounts of the celebrated Hannah Beswick and the Grey Lady of Birchen Bower, placing…
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Cover unavailableBedfordshire Folk Tales
Bedfordshire Folk Tales gathers stories rooted in the county’s history, landscapes and storytelling traditions. Its settings include dark forests, ruined castles and the green pastureland of Bedfordshire, where history and legend meet. The collection brings…
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Cover unavailableBeer and Spirits: A Guide to Haunted Pubs in the Black Country and Surrounding Area
David Taylor and Andrew Homer explore the haunted pubs of the Black Country and neighbouring areas. Their guide combines the histories of licensed premises with stories of ghostly customers, mysterious sounds and other reported experiences.…
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Cover unavailableBerkshire Folk Tales
Berkshire Folk Tales gathers stories from across the county, bringing together legends, local traditions and accounts of remarkable characters. Alongside Herne the Hunter, Wayland the Smith and the stories surrounding the Uffington White Horse are…
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Cover unavailableBlack Country Ghosts and Hauntings
Black Country Ghosts and Hauntings catalogues more than 150 reported haunted locations across the Black Country and surrounding parts of the West Midlands. Andrew Homer covers a broad range of sites, including houses, castles, pubs,…
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Cover unavailableBloody British History: Buckinghamshire
Eddie Brazil digs into the darker side of Buckinghamshire’s past in this fast-moving local history of violence, disaster, rebellion and scandal. The book moves from Romans and Saxons through plague, religious persecution and the Civil…
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Cover unavailableBorley Postscript
Borley Postscript revisits the reported haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex, adding further material to Peter Underwood’s earlier account, The Ghosts of Borley. The book centres on the evidence, recollections and investigations associated with the…
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Cover unavailableBristol Urban Legends
Bristol Urban Legends gathers stories that have circulated through the city’s families, streets and waterways, where gossip, humour and uncertainty often blur together. Wilf Merttens and Lis Groenveld give particular attention to tales that resist…
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Cover unavailableBuckinghamshire Folk Tales
Buckinghamshire Folk Tales gathers stories from across the county, arranging them around south Buckinghamshire, north Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. The collection brings together accounts of witches, dragons, highwaymen, ghosts, monks and the folkloric Black Dog,…
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Cover unavailableBygone Suffolk: Its History, Romance, Legend and Folk-Lore
John Cuming Walters surveys Suffolk’s past through its churches, monasteries and parish traditions, combining local history with legend, romance and folk-lore. The book ranges across the county’s religious heritage, literary associations and stories attached to…
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Cover unavailableCambridge Ghosts
Cambridge Ghosts gathers reported apparitions and haunting traditions from the university colleges, city-centre premises, suburban locations and the wider district. Its arrangement follows these geographical groupings, making the book suitable for tracing Cambridge’s ghost lore…
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Cover unavailableCambridgeshire Folk Tales
Cambridgeshire Folk Tales gathers stories from the county’s contrasting landscapes, linking Cambridge, Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely with the people and traditions attached to them. Maureen James includes accounts of Hereward the Saxon, the…
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Cover unavailableCambridgeshire Folk Tales for Children
Cambridgeshire’s giants, legends and local heroes appear in sixteen stories shaped from the county’s folklore and history. Chip Colquhoun retells tales of Gogmagog, the Wisbech and Histon giants, King John’s jewels, an eel catcher’s daughter…
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Cannock Chase: Ghosts, Monsters and the Mystery of a Haunted Landscape
Lee Brickley revisits the reported ghosts and strange creatures of Cannock Chase, drawing on nearly twenty years of collecting and investigating accounts from the Staffordshire landscape. The book returns to original cases and examines how…
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Cover unavailableCheshire Folk Tales
Cheshire Folk Tales gathers and retells stories rooted in the county’s landscape, traditions and oral culture. Johnny Gillett brings together tales of mythical heroes, demons, dragons, boggarts and sniddlebogs, linking them with Cheshire’s canals, forests,…
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Cover unavailableChester, City of Ghosts
Chester, City of Ghosts brings together reported hauntings from the city centre, placing stories of apparitions, poltergeist activity, unexplained sounds and sudden coldness against Chester’s long history. Cameron includes accounts from hotels, pubs, churches and…
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Cover unavailableClarissa's Pig and Other Animal Hauntings
Roger Long’s Clarissa’s Pig and Other Animal Hauntings gathers reports of animal ghosts associated with southern England. Its central case is the haunting named in the title, while the remaining accounts extend the subject beyond…
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Cover unavailableClassic Devon Ghost Stories
Classic Devon Ghost Stories gathers reported hauntings and traditional ghost tales associated with places across Devon. Paul White draws on several sources, including Sir Ernest Bennet and Mrs Bray, while preserving the character of older…
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Cover unavailableConvent Crescent
Teenage siblings Adam and Lilith find refuge at their grandfather’s home in northern England, beside an abandoned guesthouse with a disturbing past. After his death, their story becomes entangled with a brutal convent school in…
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Cover unavailableCornish Folk Tales
Cornish Folk Tales follows Anthony James, a travelling ‘droll teller’, as he journeys around Cornwall during one glorious summer. His route provides the framework for stories rooted in the Duchy’s tradition of itinerant storytellers, who…
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Cover unavailableCornish Folk Tales for Children
Mike O’Connor retells 20 Cornish folk tales through Jamie, the son of a travelling droll teller who crosses the county hearing stories of legends, ghosts and marvels. The collection is intended for children aged 7…
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Cover unavailableCornish Folk Tales of Place: Traditional Stories from Mid and West Cornwall
Anna Chorlton retells traditional stories rooted in the landscapes of Mid and West Cornwall, from cliff tops and sandy shores to granite villages, mines and open moorland. The collection brings together accounts of lovesick giants,…
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Cover unavailableCornish Folk Tales of Place: Traditional Stories from North and East Cornwall
Anna Chorlton retells traditional stories rooted in North and East Cornwall, where rugged coasts, moors, tors and sandy shorelines provide the settings. The collection includes reports of powerful mermaids, spiteful witches, crafty smugglers and woeful…
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Cover unavailableCornwall's Haunted Houses
Cornwall’s Haunted Houses brings together accounts of twelve houses associated with haunting reports, adding one haunted field to the collection. Margaret Caine and Alan Gorton place each location within its local and domestic history, rather…
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Cover unavailableCountry Folklore: Northumberland
This source collection brings together printed accounts of Northumberland folklore, arranged by subject rather than presented as a continuous narrative. Its opening sections cover tree and plant superstitions, goblindom, witchcraft, leechcraft, magic and divination, preserving…
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Cover unavailableCounty Durham Folk Tales
County Durham Folk Tales gathers traditional stories from across a varied landscape, moving from rugged coastlines and limestone cliffs to remote moorland, pastoral dales and settled coalfields. The county’s places provide settings for tales shaped…
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Cover unavailableCounty Durham Strange but True
County Durham Strange but True brings together curious people, places, customs and reported phenomena from across the county. Robert Woodhouse ranges from Gertrude Bell’s achievements and the story of Durham’s musical dwarf, Count Joseph Boruwlaski,…
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Cover unavailableCrop Circles: A Mystery Solved
Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved examines the British crop-circle phenomenon, beginning with the appearance of formations and the mythology that grew around them. Jenny Randles considers reports from fields in southern England, including Wiltshire and…
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Cover unavailableCumbrian Folk Tales
Cumbrian Folk Tales gathers stories rooted in the landscapes, characters and traditions of Cumbria, from Long Meg and John Peel to hobs, fairy figures and the oak men. Taffy Thomas retells tales shaped by the…
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Cover unavailableCuriosities of Cambridgeshire
Curiosities of Cambridgeshire is a county guide to the buildings, structures and objects that fall outside the familiar local landmark. Ian MacEachern includes architectural follies such as Hobson’s Conduit, the Wale Obelisk, the Moon Gate…
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Cover unavailableDark Tales of Old Newcastle
Dark Tales of Old Newcastle gathers accounts from the darker side of Newcastle upon Tyne’s past, moving between recorded history, local belief and grim anecdote. Pamela Armstrong covers plagues and disasters, reports of ghosts and…
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Cover unavailableDerbyshire Folk Tales
Derbyshire Folk Tales gathers traditional stories associated with the county, from the regional legend of ‘The Derby Ram’ to local versions of familiar tales such as ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Pete Castle organises the collection…
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Cover unavailableDevon Folk Tales for Children
Devon Folk Tales for Children gathers stories rooted in the county’s rivers, farms, moors and wild coastline. Its cast includes goblins tinkering in old ore mines, pixies playing along pack routes trodden by Dartmoor ponies,…
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Cover unavailableDevon Ghost Tales
Devon Ghost Tales gathers stories shaped by the county’s oral traditions and landscapes, from windswept moorland and rugged coastlines to moonlit roads. Janet Dowling retells accounts involving a voice beyond the grave, a ghost poised…
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Cover unavailableDevon's Forgotten Witches
Devon’s Forgotten Witches examines accusations of witchcraft recorded in the county between 1860 and 1910, drawing on newspaper reports and archive material. Tracey and Mark Norman bring together cases involving ordinary people whose lives were…
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Cover unavailableDevonshire Folk Tales
Michael Dacre’s collection brings together thirty tales rooted in Devonshire folklore, local tradition and the county’s long history. Some were gathered from residents, while others have developed through repeated tellings, giving the book the feel…
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Cover unavailableDorset Folk Tales
Dorset Folk Tales gathers legends rooted in the county’s oral tradition, with stories connected to its hills, coastline, ancient buildings and fortified places. Giants, dragons and remembered local characters appear alongside tales shaped by family…
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Cover unavailableDorset Folk Tales for Children
Dorset Folk Tales for Children brings together 14 traditional West Country stories retold by folk singer, musician and actor Tim Laycock. Its cast includes demons, dragons, giants, mermaids and Jack-o’-lanterns, while the tales draw on…
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Cover unavailableDorset Mysteries
Dorset Mysteries is a short, multi-contributor collection concerned with unexplained mysteries associated with the county of Dorset. Its subject classification places it within occult and paranormal nonfiction, while the regional focus ties the material to…
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