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 unavailableThe Meaning of Witchcraft
The Meaning of Witchcraft presents Gerald Gardner’s account of witchcraft as a surviving religious tradition, drawing on his stated experiences as a practising witch. He discusses the witch cult in Britain, proposed Stone Age origins,…
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Cover unavailableThe Most Haunted House in England
Harry Price’s account centres on Borley Rectory in Essex, a Victorian parsonage surrounded by reports of footsteps, moving objects, phantom coach sounds and a spectral nun. The book traces the building’s history and gathers testimony…
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Cover unavailableThe Mystery of Jack of Kent and the Fate of Owain Glyndwr
Alex Gibbon examines the Welsh border traditions surrounding Jack of Kent and their possible connection with Owain Glyndwr, the leader of the Welsh revolt against Henry IV. Set around Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the Welsh Marches,…
View book details →The Old Cowes Ghost Trail
The Old Cowes Ghost Trail gathers reported ghost stories and haunting traditions associated with Old Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. Its tightly local focus places the book within the island’s wider tradition of collecting…
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Cover unavailableThe Original Ghosts of the Isle of Wight
The Original Ghosts of the Isle of Wight collects reported apparitions and haunting stories gathered by local writer Gay Baldwin. Presented as first-hand accounts, the book records the island’s supernatural lore through stories attached to…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Files
Cases that resist easy classification are the focus of this volume in Mike Covell’s investigation series. Subjects include witchcraft, superstition, psychic claims and the Satanic Panic, alongside an episode in which the River Hull changed…
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Cover unavailableThe Paranormal Press
Covell brings together newspaper accounts of alleged ghosts and hauntings in Hull between 1800 and 2018. The transcribed reports are accompanied by historical background, family research, maps and photographs. Cases range from early haunted-house reports…
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Cover unavailableThe Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia
George Ewart Evans records the customs, working habits and local language of East Anglian farming communities before mechanisation transformed rural life. Drawing on conversations with older residents of Blaxhall, Suffolk, he organises the book around…
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Cover unavailableThe Pennine UFO Mystery
The Pennine UFO Mystery investigates a reported wave of UFO activity across Northern England, concentrating on events around Todmorden and the wider Pennine region. Jenny Randles begins with the death of Zigmund Adamski, whose body…
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Cover unavailableThe Poltergeist Casebook
John West reviews notable poltergeist cases, drawing together historical records, witnesses’ accounts and later investigations. The selection includes Cock Lane, Epworth, Enfield, the Black Monk of Pontefract and the Bell Witch. Alongside descriptions of alleged…
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Cover unavailableThe Poltergeist Prince of London
The Poltergeist Prince of London recounts the reported haunting that began in 1956 at the Hitchings family home in Battersea. The disturbances started with an unidentified silver key on Shirley Hitchings’ bed, followed by tapping…
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Cover unavailableThe Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400–1700
Ronald Hutton examines the religious and secular rituals that shaped the English year between 1400 and 1700. The book traces seasonal celebrations, communal festivities and local customs through periods of major religious and political change,…
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Cover unavailableThe Rise of the Silver Hatchet Gang
Covell investigates the stories surrounding the Silver Hatchet Gang, tracing a feared group’s reported activities from London to Hull. Theft, intimidation, prostitution and violent crime feature in an account of the gang’s emergence and eventual…
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Cover unavailableThe Scole Report
The Scole Report records an investigation into a mediumistic group holding séances in a private house in Scole, Norfolk. David Fontana, Montague Keen and Arthur Ellison describe sittings conducted between 1995 and 1997, detailing reported…
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Cover unavailableThe Snow Witch
A woman fleeing a traumatic past arrives in Portsmouth as an extraordinary snowstorm cuts the city off. Encounters with its residents offer the possibility of belonging, while an obsessive man threatens her precarious new life.…
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Cover unavailableThe South Shields Poltergeist
The South Shields Poltergeist documents a reported outbreak of disturbing activity in a South Shields family home between 2005 and 2006. Darren W. Ritson and Michael J. Hallowell investigate claims that objects moved without explanation,…
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Cover unavailableThe South Shields Poltergeist: One Family's Fight Against an Invisible Intruder
The South Shields Poltergeist recounts a reported haunting that began in 2005, when a young family in South Shields noticed doors opening, chairs moving and their son’s toys behaving violently. The disturbances escalated to scratches,…
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Cover unavailableThe Tragic Tale of William Papper
Fourteen-year-old fishing apprentice William Papper did not return when the Rising Sun reached Hull in January 1882. Covell reconstructs the investigation that exposed his murder, using contemporary statements and press reports. The account follows the…
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Cover unavailableThe UFO Files
Hull’s reported aerial mysteries are examined from 1801 to 2018 through witness accounts, newspaper material and official records. Topics include early airship scares, a reported 1967 landing, mass sightings in the 1970s and the Hull…
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The Witches of St Osyth: Persecution, Murder and Betrayal in Elizabethan England
Marion Gibson reconstructs the witchcraft accusations that divided St Osyth and neighbouring Essex communities in 1581–82. Sixteen women and one man were accused of sorcery, while Ursley Kempe and Elizabeth Bennett were taken to Chelmsford…
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Cover unavailableThe York Ghost Walk
This guide by Sheila Walsh and MJ Wayland follows York’s ghost stories through the city’s historic streets and buildings. Designed as a self-guided walk, it combines familiar locations such as the Shambles with less widely…
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Cover unavailableTrue Leeds Ghost Stories
True Leeds Ghost Stories gathers reported paranormal accounts connected with the city of Leeds, bringing together stories that range from familiar local lore to lesser-known incidents. Chris Wade presents these accounts as tales of alleged…
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Cover unavailableTyne and Wear Folk Tales for Children
Tyne and Wear Folk Tales for Children gathers illustrated retellings rooted in the folklore of north-east England. Its stories range from witches and saints to evil fairies, the Devil and a remarkable flying donkey, with…
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UFO's Werewolves & The Pig-Man: Exposing England's Strangest Location - Cannock Chase
Lee Brickley investigates the reported UFOs, werewolves and Pig-Man of Cannock Chase. The book brings together sightings, local stories and questions about the Staffordshire woodland's reputation for strange events.
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Cover unavailableWalking Haunted London
Walking Haunted London sets out 25 routes through London and nearby locations, linking streets, buildings, pubs and theatres with reported apparitions, ghost stories and darker episodes from the capital’s past. Richard Jones includes well-known names…
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Cover unavailableWarwickshire Folk Tales
Cath Edwards gathers tales from historic Warwickshire, including Coventry, Rugby, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham. The collection brings together stories of Lady Godiva, Dick Turpin, Guy of Warwick and Saint George, alongside accounts of the Rollright…
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Cover unavailableWeird Tales from the Island City: 9 Strange Portsmouth Stories
Nine strange stories turn Portsmouth into a setting for supernatural encounters, dark comedy and unsettling discoveries. Matt Wingett’s collection combines seven short stories with two novellas, featuring such possibilities as a mermaid, time-travelling cats and…
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Cover unavailableWest Country Walks & Legends
West Country Walks & Legends combines walking and local legend across England’s West Country, linking places, landscape and the stories attached to them. John H. N. Mason’s account treats the region as both a geographical…
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Cover unavailableWest Midlands Folk Tales
Cath Edwards gathers folk stories from a county shaped by coal mining, ironworking, farming and the growth of industrial towns. The collection includes miners’ beliefs about broken shoes, warning signs, Gabriel Hounds and the Seven…
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Cover unavailableWest Yorkshire Folk Tales
West Yorkshire Folk Tales gathers stories from across the county, linking the open Pennine hills with the neighbourhoods of its industrial towns. John Billingsley presents traditions associated with local places and people, showing how communities…
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Cover unavailableWho Made England?
Who Made England? examines how England emerged from several smaller Saxon kingdoms during the early medieval period. Chip Colquhoun sets historical fact alongside folklore while asking whether Alfred the Great began the work of unification,…
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Cover unavailableWho's There?: The True Story of a Leeds Haunting
Who's There? recounts the Slater family’s reported haunting in Leeds, beginning with what sounds like a baby crying in their new home. Colette Shires, who experienced the events as a child, describes paranormal activity that…
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Cover unavailableWiltshire Folk Tales
Wiltshire Folk Tales gathers 30 stories associated with the county, retold by storyteller Kirsty Hartsiotis. The collection ranges from the Giant’s Dance and the Moonrakers to Merlin’s trickery, the flying monk of Malmesbury, and tales…
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Cover unavailableWiltshire Folklore and Legends
Wiltshire Folklore and Legends gathers traditions connected with the county’s prehistoric landscape, rural communities and long-running local stories. Ralph Whitlock discusses the Devil’s supposed role in building Stonehenge and the tale of King Zel, whose…
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Cover unavailableWitchcraft in England
Christina Hole’s illustrated history surveys English beliefs and practices associated with witchcraft, from ancient rites and sorcery to later forms of popular magic. Its subjects include maleficium, familiars, methods used to identify suspected witches, alleged…
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Cover unavailableWitchcraft in the Thames Valley
Witchcraft in the Thames Valley gathers traditional witchcraft tales associated with the Thames Valley, presenting local stories where folklore, reported marvels and historical memory overlap. Tony Barham’s short regional study centres on traditions attached to…
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Cover unavailableWitchcraft Today
Witchcraft Today presents Gerald Gardner’s account of witchcraft as a living religion, based on his claims to have encountered practising covens in England. He describes beliefs, ritual practices, initiation and meetings, while considering the roles…
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Cover unavailableWitchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
Malcolm Gaskill reconstructs the English witch-hunt of 1645–47, when civil-war upheaval, disease, poverty and religious division intensified fears of hidden evil. The book centres on Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, two men who began investigating…
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Cover unavailableWorcestershire Folk Tales
Worcestershire Folk Tales gathers stories shaped by the county’s villages, countryside and industrial past. David Phelps ranges from mythical origins and Civil War battles to witchcraft trials, religious scandals and an unsolved twentieth-century murder, showing…
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Cover unavailableYork’s Hidden Hauntings
Wayland explores some of York’s less familiar ghost stories, looking beyond the accounts most often repeated about the city. The collection connects reported hauntings with historic buildings and earlier written sources, including nineteenth-century material. It…
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Cover unavailableYorkshire Folk Tales for Children
Yorkshire Folk Tales for Children gathers adapted legends, traditional tales and folk wisdom for readers aged seven to eleven. Carmel Page’s stories range from Brigg the Dragon and the Penhill Giant to Robin Hood’s beginnings…
View book details →Yorkshire Ghosts
Yorkshire Ghosts is a short regional work devoted to ghost accounts associated with Yorkshire. Its scope is defined by place, bringing together material under the county’s name rather than presenting a general history of apparitions…
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Cover unavailableYorkshire Stories of the Supernatural
This regional collection follows reported supernatural experiences across Yorkshire, including phantom aircraft, haunted historic buildings and encounters associated with the county’s moors and abbeys. Andy Owens brings together stories linked with places such as Temple…
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