The Ghost Book

The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings in Britain gathers reported encounters from across England and Scotland, arranged as a series of individual accounts rather than a continuous history. Its sections include “The Haunted Farmhouse” and “Haunted Ballachulish”, while the book’s places and subjects range from Highland houses and islands to English villages, manor houses and roads.

MacGregor includes accounts involving apparitions, unexplained lights, poltergeist activity and spectral animals such as Black Shuck. Names including Iona, the Isle of Mull, Loch Creran, Dunwich, Southwold and Edale point to the wide geographical spread of the collection. The result is a mid-20th-century compilation of British haunting reports, local traditions and stories attached to particular buildings, landscapes and communities.