Explore ghost books from across the UK and Ireland, including local hauntings, haunted houses, ghost stories and paranormal investigations. This collection brings together titles about supernatural history and the places where ghostly traditions have taken root.
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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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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 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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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…
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Cover unavailableA 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 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 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 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 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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Alone at the Inn
Alone at the Inn recounts Steve Higgins’s solo, overnight investigation of the Ancient Ram Inn in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, a building associated with longstanding reports of paranormal activity. The account follows the night’s vigils, observations and…
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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 unavailableAtlas of Paranormal Places
Atlas of Paranormal Places surveys more than 50 locations linked to ghost stories, witchcraft, sacred traditions, unexplained events and cryptid lore. Its worldwide selection ranges from the Chase Vault in Barbados and Charleville Castle in…
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Cover unavailableBeasts, Banshees and Bogeymen
Beasts, Banshees and Bogeymen gathers Tom Slemen’s accounts of reported supernatural encounters, folklore and sinister local legends from Liverpool and its surroundings. The stories range from named apparitions and uncanny beings to tales rooted in…
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Cover unavailableBecoming Peggy: My Paranormal Journey
Becoming Peggy: My Paranormal Journey is an autobiographical account of the experiences, interests and discoveries that shaped Penny Griffiths-Morgan’s work in paranormal investigation. Rather than presenting a sequence of haunted locations, it focuses on the…
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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 unavailableBehold! Shocking True Tales of Terror... and Some Other Spooky Stuff!
Rick Hale recounts the experiences that drew him into paranormal investigation, beginning with a childhood encounter at his grandmother's home. His memoir follows investigations of troubled households, reports of dark entities, visits to the Stanley…
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Cover unavailableBeyond North Edinburgh Nightmares
John S Tantalon returns to Edinburgh’s haunted streets in this follow-up to North Edinburgh Nightmares. The collection widens the map to include Leith, Portobello, South Queensferry and other parts of the city, gathering more local…
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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 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 unavailableBritain’s Ghostly Heritage
The second volume in John West’s survey of British hauntings follows reports from Edinburgh Castle to St Albans and York. A spectral mummy in London, Suffolk time-slip accounts and Welsh phantoms broaden the selection. West…
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Cover unavailableBritain’s Haunted Heritage
John West collects twenty accounts of reported hauntings and supernatural traditions from England, Scotland and Wales. Subjects include the Roman soldiers associated with York, Borley’s ghost stories, the Croglin vampire and the Hexham heads. Historical…
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Cover unavailableBritain’s Haunted Land
John West’s third collection of British ghost reports explores a varied landscape of apparitions and uncanny traditions. Black Shuck, spectral soldiers, Grey Ladies and time slips appear alongside haunted ships, a phantom bus and accounts…
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Cover unavailableByways of Ghostland
Byways of Ghostland brings together Elliott O'Donnell’s theories, reports and folklore concerning ghosts and a broad range of occult phenomena. Its 12 chapters move from questions about the brain and spiritual experience to obsession, possession,…
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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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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 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 unavailableChingle: Britain's Most Haunted House
Sally Wallbank’s Chingle: Britain’s Most Haunted House centres on Chingle Hall, the moated Lancashire manor whose reputation rests on generations of reported paranormal activity. The book gathers accounts linked to the building and its history,…
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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…
View book details →Complete Ghosts and Legends of East Lothian
Complete Ghosts and Legends of East Lothian gathers ghost stories, legends and folklore associated with East Lothian, the historic coastal county in south-east Scotland. Its focus is local tradition: accounts and beliefs connected with the…
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Cover unavailableConfessions of a Ghost-Hunter
Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter presents Harry Price’s personal account of how he became involved in ghost-hunting and psychical research. Alongside reminiscences of his early interest in magic and reported paranormal experiences, he considers dreams, fairies,…
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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 unavailableDangerous Ghosts
Dangerous Ghosts presents Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of apparitions and other supernatural entities said to threaten people mentally or physically. Rather than developing a theory of haunting, the book assembles anecdotes presented as true, while acknowledging…
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Cover unavailableDead Haunted: The Collection
Claire Barrand brings together supernatural stories inspired by reported hauntings and eerie events, with a strong flavour of Gothic and haunted Wales. The collection mixes ghostly storytelling with the atmosphere of real places and traditions,…
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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 unavailableDo You Believe in Ghosts?
Do You Believe in Ghosts? introduces younger readers to reported hauntings and the question of whether ghosts exist. Danny Robins considers poltergeists, apparitions, messages from the spirit world, ghost photographs and even a reportedly haunted…
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Cover unavailableEast Anglian Ghosts, Legends and Lore
Peter Jeffery’s collection brings together ghost stories, legends and local lore from East Anglia, with material connected to Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. Its regional scope places reported hauntings alongside older traditions attached to particular communities,…
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Cover unavailableEerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen
Edward Parnell’s anthology gathers 17 short stories rooted in the landscapes of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Dating from the 1900s to the 2010s, the collection brings together earlier ghost-story writers and contemporary practitioners, including…
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Cover unavailableElliott O'Donnell's Casebook of Ghosts
Presented as true stories from Elliott O’Donnell’s files, this collection brings together reports of ghosts and alleged hauntings in a casebook-style format. The emphasis is on testimony, incidents and recorded claims rather than fictional invention,…
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Cover unavailableElliott O'Donnell's Ghost Hunters
Elliott O'Donnell's Ghost Hunters gathers 18 accounts from the files and papers associated with one of Britain’s most prolific writers on apparitions. The collection presents reported hauntings as stories and testimony, combining alleged true encounters…
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