Haunted High Wycombe

Haunted High Wycombe gathers reported ghost stories from the Buckinghamshire town and its surrounding district. Eddie Brazil covers apparitions and unexplained incidents linked with roads, woods, open spaces, railway lines, cellars and buildings, including Hughenden Manor, where Benjamin Disraeli is said to appear, and Burleighfield House, associated with a woman in black. Other accounts feature phantom horsemen, ghostly children, headless figures and disembodied footsteps.

The book is arranged in four sections, moving from haunted roads and countryside to ancient and modern buildings, before turning to West Wycombe and its Hellfire Club associations. A final section visits reportedly haunted places in nearby towns. First-hand experiences are set alongside local history and wider British examples, while Brazil considers competing ideas about what reported hauntings might represent.