Haunted Scarborough

Haunted Scarborough gathers reported apparitions, local legends and unsettling tales from one of Yorkshire’s best-known seaside resorts. Mark Riley covers stories involving poltergeists, mummies and the ominous figure known as the Headless Man, alongside the curious tradition of houses that supposedly vanished without explanation.

The book also considers how ghost stories can be created, repeated and accepted as local lore, including a discussion of fictional hauntings associated with Scarborough’s theatres and cinemas. More than sixty illustrations accompany the accounts, placing the town’s supernatural traditions within its streets, buildings and visitor history. The result is a compact collection of reported experiences, legends and invented ghosts, presented as part of Scarborough’s darker cultural history.