The Haunted Realm

The Haunted Realm brings together Simon Marsden’s black-and-white photographs of British locations linked with ghost stories, witchcraft and other uncanny traditions. Its subjects include old houses, castles, ruins, graveyards and neglected sites where apparitions or supernatural events have been reported.

Marsden pairs these atmospheric images with accounts of the manifestations associated with each place, alongside stories of murders, tragedies and other macabre incidents said to have shaped their reputations. The result is both a photographic record of Britain’s haunted landscape and a collection of local tales rooted in particular buildings and settings. Published in 1986, it presents the country’s supernatural lore through Marsden’s distinctive, shadowed vision.