Essex Ghost Tales

Robert Hallmann’s collection sets tales of hauntings and dark local history across the Essex landscape, blending historical material, reported apparitions and imagined events. Its stories range from long-dead Vikings stirred by an eclipse to a forest concealing a grim secret, while Gallows Hill is marked by a feared cross.

Elsewhere, a Grey Lady seeks revenge, phantom highwaymen haunt the roads, and smugglers, murders and a one-eyed stranger add darker shades to the county’s folklore. The contents include ‘Silence of the Woods’, ‘Murder on the Marsh’ and ‘The Viking Eclipse’, with original drawings accompanying the stories. The result is a varied collection rooted in Essex settings, legends and unsettling tales of the past.