Ghost Books from the UK & Ireland

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.

171 books found

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Haunted St Ives

Ian Addicoat

Haunted St Ives gathers reported apparitions, manifestations and alleged encounters with ghouls and spirits from the Cornish town. Arranged in an A–Z format, Ian Addicoat’s collection brings together both familiar tales and less well-known accounts…

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Haunted Stevenage

Paul Adams

Haunted Stevenage gathers reports of ghostly activity from Old Stevenage, New Stevenage and the surrounding Hertfordshire countryside. Paul Adams covers unexplained sightings, local traditions and attempts to find evidence behind the stories, drawing on both…

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Haunted Stockton

Robert Woodhouse

Haunted Stockton gathers reported ghost stories and supernatural accounts connected with Stockton-on-Tees, drawing on both historical records and contemporary sources. The material includes apparitions, manifestations and other claims of unexplained activity linked to the town…

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Haunted Suffolk

Pete Jennings

Haunted Suffolk gathers reported apparitions, poltergeist activity and other supernatural encounters from more than 150 locations across the county. Pete Jennings draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together local traditions alongside accounts attributed to…

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Haunted Sunderland

Rupert Matthews

Haunted Sunderland gathers more than 100 reported ghost stories from Sunderland and nearby settlements, including Cleadon, Boldon, Hylton and Rythorpe. Rupert Matthews covers local traditions and alleged encounters ranging from the Havelok Road poltergeist, linked…

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Haunted Surrey

Rupert Matthews

Haunted Surrey gathers reported apparitions, hauntings and related supernatural accounts from locations across the county. Rupert Matthews draws on historical and contemporary sources, bringing together both familiar legends and less widely known stories connected with…

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Haunted Taverns

Donald Stuart

Haunted Taverns catalogues British pubs and inns associated with reported apparitions, local legends and stories of unexplained activity. Donald Stuart arranges the entries alphabetically, with a county index that gives the book a practical gazetteer-like…

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Haunted Teesside

Rebecca Hall

Haunted Teesside gathers reported ghost stories from the towns and villages scattered along the banks of the River Tees. Rebecca Hall, writing as a paranormal investigator, records eyewitness sightings in abandoned factories and mines, alleged…

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Haunted Tunbridge Wells

Neil Arnold

Haunted Tunbridge Wells gathers reported ghost stories from Royal Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding Kent villages, placing local folklore alongside the area’s long history. Neil Arnold covers locations including The Pantiles, Groombridge, Sissinghurst, Southborough, Pembury…

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Haunted Tyneside

Darren W. Ritson

Haunted Tyneside gathers reported ghost stories from across the region, covering apparitions, unexplained phenomena and poltergeist activity. Darren W. Ritson includes accounts associated with Tynemouth Priory, Newcastle’s Jin Jameson and the haunting of Willington Mill.…

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Haunted Tyrone

Cormac Strain

Haunted Tyrone gathers reported hauntings and paranormal accounts from across County Tyrone, ranging from disturbances at a farmhouse near Gortin in the Sperrin Mountains to a reputed apparition in a locked room at Knocknamoe Castle…

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Haunted Waters

Elliott O'Donnell

Haunted Waters gathers reported hauntings associated with rivers, streams, lakes and pools across Great Britain and Ireland. Elliott O'Donnell focuses on water-bound locations where ghost stories, local traditions and accounts of apparitions have become attached…

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Haunted Wearside

Darren W. Ritson

Haunted Wearside gathers more than 50 reported ghost encounters from Sunderland and the surrounding Wearside area. Darren W. Ritson combines eyewitness testimony with accounts of attempts to find evidence for ghostly activity, presenting local stories…

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Haunted Wigan

Sarah Carberry; Nicola Johnson

Haunted Wigan gathers reported ghost stories from the town and surrounding region, drawing on both historical and contemporary sources. Its settings include former cotton mills and public houses, places associated with Wigan’s industrial and social…

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Haunted Wiltshire

Keith Wills

Haunted Wiltshire gathers reported ghost stories from the county’s historic buildings, ancient sites and rural landscapes. Keith Wills covers claimed manifestations at Devizes Castle, a supposed haunting by a dwarf at Lacock Abbey and a…

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Haunted Wirral: Volume 1

Tom Slemen

Haunted Wirral: Volume 1 gathers 51 reported tales from across the Wirral peninsula, ranging from apparitions and phantom figures to doppelgangers, premonitions and accounts of reincarnation. The collection treats the area as a setting for…

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Haunted Wirral: Volume 2

Tom Slemen

Haunted Wirral: Volume 2 gathers reported ghost stories connected with the Wirral peninsula, presenting local accounts of apparitions and other uncanny experiences in a regional setting. The book belongs to Tom Slemen’s wider series of…

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Haunted Worcestershire

Anthony Poulton-Smith

Anthony Poulton-Smith’s A–Z survey gathers reported hauntings from across Worcestershire, combining historical material with interviews conducted with local witnesses. The accounts range from apparitions and poltergeist activity to unexplained sounds, sudden chills and stories involving…

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Haunted Worthing

Wendy Hughes

Haunted Worthing gathers reported encounters and local traditions from the seaside town and its surrounding countryside. Among the accounts are an eight-foot monk apparently reading a prayer book, a young girl whose hair is stroked…

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Haunted York

Rupert Matthews

Haunted York gathers reported apparitions and uncanny traditions from one of England’s most historic cities. Rupert Matthews covers stories attached to York Minster, where a medieval stonemason is said to remain, and the Treasurer’s House,…

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Haunted Yorkshire

Nick Tyler

Haunted Yorkshire gathers reported ghost stories, local legends and darker historical tales from across the county. Nick Tyler discusses ghostly hounds on the North York Moors, a phantom highwayman in Sheffield, the Oxenhope spectre and…

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Hauntings

Peter Underwood

Peter Underwood examines several of Britain’s most closely documented haunting cases, combining historical accounts with the findings of his own investigations. The cases include reported activity at Hampton Court, the demon drummer associated with Bedworth,…

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Hauntings and Apparitions

Andrew MacKenzie

Hauntings and Apparitions examines reported ghost sightings and haunting experiences through the evidence gathered around individual cases. Andrew MacKenzie considers apparitional figures, recurring experiences and claims linked to particular places, including the well-known Cheltenham case,…

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Hexy B*tch

Daisy May Cooper

Hexy B*tch is Daisy May Cooper’s memoir of a long-standing fascination with ghosts, spirits, astrology, tea leaves and paranormal activity. It follows her investigations into haunted houses, conversations with people who claim to communicate with…

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How to Build a Haunted House

Caitlin Blackwell Baines

Why do some buildings become haunted in our imagination while others do not? Caitlin Blackwell Baines traces the history of the haunted house through architecture, folklore, literature and popular culture, exploring famous locations including Hampton…

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