The Haunted City

The Haunted City gathers supernatural stories linked to Liverpool, setting them alongside the city’s conventional history. Tom Slemen focuses on an overlooked strand of local storytelling, where reported hauntings, strange encounters and other paranormal incidents become part of the city’s wider character.

Rather than presenting Liverpool solely through familiar historical accounts, the book considers the stories attached to its streets, buildings and communities. These accounts form a shadow history of the city, shaped by testimony, rumour and remembered experience. Slemen’s approach places local ghost lore within a recognisable urban setting, showing how reports of the uncanny can sit alongside the documented past without becoming part of it.