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Item #141

Ghosts & Legends of Yorkshire, Andy Roberts, 1992, photos, biblio., 128 pp. $8.95

Dragons, hobs, barguests and boggards. Robin Hood, the screaming skull of Burton Agnes, ghostly black dogs and panthers. A troop of Roman soldiers in the Treasurer's House at York, a ghostly naval officer at York Minster, a hideous hooded apparition photographed at Newby Church in 1960.

Item #142

Ghosts and Witches of the Cotswolds, J.A. Brooks, 1986 index, photos and line art, 144 pp. $8.95

The ghostly re-enactment of the Battle of Edgehill, a skeletal scarecrow. Prestbury, a picturesque, but haunted, village stalked by spectres like The Black Abbott, Old Moses, and a dead music master who plays the spinet.

Item #11

Ghosts of Berkshire, Ian McLoughlin, 1995, map, index, 96 pp $11.95

If you enjoyed the Jarrold series of ghost books (Cambridge College Ghosts, Ghosts and Legends of the Lake District, Haunted Royal Homes) you’ll find this UK import just the chilling thing for bedtime reading. Gruesome doings during the building of a youth centre in Newbury. It was built on an old burial ground and the American architect describes the havoc wrought by the disturbed dead. A child’s spectral handprint that still appears on a pub window in Datchet—remnant of an ancient tragedy. Herne the Hunter, evil Will Darrell of Littlecote. Ghosts of the English Civil War, highwaymen ghosts, and the multitude of royal ghosts of Windsor Castle. A nice mix of old and new hauntings.

Item #151

The Ghosts of Borley, Stories of Ghosts and Hauntings Along the Essex and Suffolk Border, Wesley H. Downes, 1993, line art, photos, 59 pp $8.50

An entertaining, must-read for Borley buffs (or any UK ghost fan) and available in the U.S. exclusively from Invisible Ink™. About half of the book is stories directly about Borley and Borley Church. One very unusual ghost photo taken in the church. A vanishing island, complete with ghostly fisherman. The spirit of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General. A ghostly chimney-sweep at Dedham. A whistling WWII pilot who kept materializing in the back seat of a man’s car as he drove to Ipswich.

Item #14

Ghosts of Essex, Betty Puttick, 1997, map, index, 112 pp $11.95

If you enjoyed the Jarrold series of ghost books (Ghosts and Legends of Yorkshire) you’ll find this UK import just the chilling thing for bedtime reading. Essex, home of the infamous Borley Rectory and Church, is also known as "the witch county" for its cunning-men and for the evil Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General, who still haunts Mistley. The re-enactment of the Moat Farm murder. The ghostly Roman centurion of Mersea. The Devil’s House at Wallasea Island, haunted by a demon or the devil himself, whose huge wings were heard beating aloft and who urged people to madness or suicide in the barn. Lots of great first-hand stories here.

Item #746

Ghosts of Great Britain and Ireland A Compendium of 2,000 Hauntings, Jonathan Sutherland, 2001,websites, ghost tour list, biblio, 312 pp, oversize trade paperback Sorry, this book is no longer available. Ask us to find you a nice used copy.

Brief entries, arranged alphabetically, make this an easy-to-use reference book. Invaluable for anyone interested in the ghosts of “the most haunted country in the world.” About the size of a small phone book. Does for Great Britain what Dennis Hauck did for the US in his National Directory of Haunted Places. Skibo Castle, site of Madonna's wedding, haunted by a screaming, terrified young maidservant. The ghost of the son of Sir Francis Drake who broke his and his horse's neck in a race. Harold Norman, who was supposedly killed onstage as part of a stage fight in Macbeth, haunts the Colosseum Theatre in Oldham on Thursdays--the day he was killed. Black dogs, white ladies, and grey monks.

Item #16

Ghosts of Hertfordshire, Betty Puttick, 1994, map, index, 124 pp $11.95

If you enjoyed the Jarrold series of ghost books (Devon Ghosts, Ghosts and Legends of the Peak District) you’ll find this UK import just the chilling thing for bedtime reading. St. Alban’s Abbey, where Benedictine monks still process and sing. The phantom death-cart of Datchworth seen passing along Rectory Lane, with the legs of the dead paupers dangling pathetically from the back of the cart. The mischievous ghost of a little boy who haunted St Alban’s Wellington Pub. When the building was turned into a butcher shop, he went right on playing his tricks—like puncturing tires and breaking bottles. The woman who was saved from a nasty fall when a workman’s ghost held her ladder. A good combination of traditional and contemporary stories.

Item #143

Ghosts of Lincoln, Jenny Bright & Dr David Cross, 1995, photos, 87 pp $9.95

An assortment of haunts from around the Lincolnshire area. I was intrigued by a purported ghost photo from a haunted forgeworks. As with so many of these photos, I simply can't see the ghost(s), despite artist's sketches pointing them out. Perhaps the reproduction is just not good enough. From strange footprints that mysterious appear in a beauty parlor to a phantom highway with a horribly burned face who appears at the White Hart Inn. Dark figures with human-like heads, but no faces and no hair at Hedgehog Copse. The gruesome tale of Tom Otter, who beat his wife of three hours to death with a hedgestake. Even after Otter was hung and his body gibbeted (the birds nested between his decaying jaws), the hedgestake kept mysteriously returning to the scene of the crime. Psychic medium Bright and Cross, her husband, investigate hauntings and run ghost tours and special events.

Item #144

Ghosts of London, J.A. Brooks, illus., 1982, biblio., photos, index, 287 pp. $12.95

Arranged by area. A nearly complete ghost-tour of London. The ghosts of the Tower of London, theatrical ghosts like that of comedian Dan Leno--still having the last laugh. The Cock Lane ghost, Jeremy Bentham tapping his walking stick along the corridors of the school where his mummified body sits in a glass case.

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