Haunted Britain: A Journey Through the British Isles in Thirty Famous Ghost Stories

A girl has been waiting four hundred years for someone to answer her. She is behind a wall at Chillingham Castle. And she is one of the quieter ones. There is a Roman legion marching through a cellar in York. A doll has gone missing from a shelf in the underground streets of Edinburgh. On a Norfolk staircase, a woman in eighteenth-century dress has been photographed only once, in 1936, and has not been seen by a camera since. In Haunted Britain, Eleanor Grimshaw has gathered thirty of the strangest and most carefully attested ghost stories on these islands and retold each as a standalone tale you can read in a single sitting. From the gas-lit attic of Fifty Berkeley Square to the locked tower at Ballygally. From Pluckley village in the Weald of Kent to the lighthouse on Eilean Mòr, where three keepers walked out of a sealed room and never came back. Inside you will find: - The screaming gallery at Hampton Court, where a queen runs to a door that will never open- The Mistletoe Bride of Bramshill, lost on her wedding night and found fifty years later- The Enfield Poltergeist, retold through the eyes of the young constable who walked out of the house and never spoke of it again- The Black Dog of Bungay, which tore through a Suffolk church in the storm of 1577 and left scorch marks on the door that are still there- The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, the most famous ghost photograph ever taken, and the two men who took it Some you will have heard of. Most you will not. All are drawn from real legend, and from the testimony of people who said, plainly, that what they saw was real. For anyone who has ever wondered what the creak on the landing above actually was. Read with a light on.

Pagina's: 235, Paperback, Independently published