Haunted Bath

Haunted Bath gathers reported ghost stories from one of England’s most historic cities, linking apparitions and strange incidents to recognisable local buildings. Among the accounts are a deceased barmaid said to remain at a pub, a Grey Lady associated with the Theatre Royal, and a poltergeist reported at the Garrick’s Head.

David Brandon also includes a man in a black hat at the Assembly Rooms and a ghostly young woman reputed to sing at the Circus. Alongside Bath’s better-known stories, the book draws on local archives to bring forward less familiar phantoms and spectral reports. Its setting reaches from the city’s 18th-century fashionable heyday to more recent accounts attached to pubs, theatres and other familiar places.