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.
66 books found
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 Paranormal Source Book
The Paranormal Source Book surveys reported paranormal phenomena and cases across a broad range of subjects, from ghosts and poltergeists to UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles. Jenny Randles also covers ESP, precognition, dreams, out-of-body…
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Cover unavailableThe Penguin Book of Ghosts
The Penguin Book of Ghosts gathers reported hauntings and ghost lore from across England, arranged county by county and place by place. Its accounts include the malevolent apparition associated with 50 Berkeley Square, the tapping…
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Cover unavailableThe Police and the Paranormal
Andy Owens collects reports from police officers who say they encountered phenomena they could not readily explain. The book considers the tension between their professional role as observers and the risk of ridicule when describing…
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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 Realm of Ghosts
The Realm of Ghosts traces ghost lore and reported hauntings from ancient societies to the recent past, placing apparitions within a long history of belief. Eric Maple considers the traditions of primitive and pagan peoples,…
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Cover unavailableThe Screaming Skulls, and Other Ghost Stories
The Screaming Skulls, and Other Ghost Stories gathers purportedly true ghost tales alongside traditional legends collected under Elliott O'Donnell's name. Its accounts describe apparitions, haunted houses, creeping hands, vengeful phantoms and tortured wraiths, with several…
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Cover unavailableThe Seen and the Unseen
The Seen and the Unseen examines reported presences, apparitions and other experiences gathered under the broad heading of psychical research. Its 30 chapters are arranged in five sections, beginning with sensed presences and moving through…
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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 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 unavailableTheatre Ghosts
Theatre Ghosts gathers reported hauntings linked to theatres in Great Britain, treating backstage traditions and alleged apparitions as stories attached to working performance spaces. Roy Harley Lewis’s account includes a tale associated with London’s Old…
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Cover unavailableThey Walk At Night: Real British Ghost Stories
This collection surveys British ghost stories, uncanny legends and places with supernatural reputations. Wayland considers black-eyed children, screaming skulls, haunted Oxford colleges, a phantom ship and stories from the Scottish Borders. Brief accounts are accompanied…
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Cover unavailableThirteen Famous Ghost Stories
Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories is an anthology of 13 classic tales of ghosts, apparitions and supernatural disturbance, edited and introduced by Peter Underwood. It brings together distinguished writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries,…
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Cover unavailableThis Haunted Isle
This Haunted Isle examines ghost stories and legends attached to Britain’s historic buildings, including houses, castles and mansions whose architecture and past have encouraged generations of haunting reports. Peter Underwood presents these traditions as testimony…
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Cover unavailableThis House Is Haunted: The Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist
Guy Lyon Playfair’s account follows the Enfield poltergeist investigation from the first disturbances in a north London council house in 1977. Reported events included unexplained knockings, doors opening and closing, objects being thrown across rooms…
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Cover unavailableTrees of Ghostly Dread
Trees of Ghostly Dread gathers Elliott O'Donnell’s accounts of apparitions, folklore and reported hauntings connected with trees. The subject is treated as a meeting point between ghost stories and older beliefs about the presence or…
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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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