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Item #145

Ghosts of the Broads, Charles Sampson, 1973, photos, biblio., 174 pp. (No, the Broads are not a woman's rugby team, but a unique wetlands ecosystem.) $8.95

A ghostly Roman festival at Wroxham, a flaming coach driven by a skeletal bishop drags at ghostly bride to her doom at Heigham Bridge, the re-enactment of a fiery tragedy at a ghostly mill on Ormsby Broad.

Item #146

The Good Ghost Guide, J.A. Brooks, 1994, photos and line art, glossary, biblio., 288 pp. $18.95

Brooks, who pens so many of the Jarrold series now brings us a monster edition of over 1,000 ghosts and supernatural beings from England, Scotland and Wales. Arranged alphabetically by location and lavishly illustrated with color photos. This gazetteer briefly summarizes over 1,000 British hauntings. Locations and maps will get you to each site. Symbols by each entry give you the category of ghost, for example, spectral army, animal or bird ghost, phantom ship, royalty. The ghostly bridal party of Featherstone Castle, marked by terrible wounds they received in an ambush. The ghost of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey. The evil mummy case of the British Museum. Chillingham Castle, where numerous bodies have been found buried in the walls. The boggart of Longridge, Lancashire, who appears to be a dear old lady in a bonnet, until she turns her faceless form to you and tips her head out of her basket.

Item #745

Haunted Britain and Ireland, Richard Jones, 2001, with photographs from The Fortean Picture Library, biblio, index, maps, 160 pp, Approx. 9 x 12” $40.00 HB

GORGEOUS pictures! This entertaining and well-researched book is an elegant, coffee-table book on the picturesque haunts of the Haunted Isles. Most entries are about half a page. From the tragic plague cottages at Eyam to Hampton Court Palace and the multiple apparitions of kings and queens. A phantom girl captured on film as Wem Town Hall burned? The incredibly creepy Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. The well-cured ghost of “Old Spider” who died up the chimney at the Bear Inn at Stock. Dering Chapel in the church of St. Nicholas, Pluckley, where a dull knocking is often heard from the burial vaults below the floor. About half historical and half contemporary accounts. More than 130 haunted sites—and many more ghosts. Many sites are open to the public.

Item #21

Haunted Heritage, John Mason, 160 pp, photos. $17.95

If you like the photos of Simon Marsden, you’ll chill to these GORGEOUS and evocative infra-red photos of haunted British sites. Each is accompanied by a short history and ghost story from each site.They are all owned by English Heritage so you can visit them. Waverly Abbey, haunted by the spirit of a drawn-and-quartered monk searching for his lost entrails. Hylton Castle, home to a “Cauld Lad” and a drowned stable boy seen dripping wet with chattering teeth. Dunstanburgh Castle where Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, executed by a bungling headsman who took 11 strokes to behead him, walks, carrying his mangled head, its face contorted in agony. Thetford Warren Lodge, haunted by a phantom leper with ravaged face and burning eyes. Grey ladies, ghostly monks, dead lords and ladies.

Item #148

Haunted Inns and Taverns, Andrew Green, 1995, photos, biblio, index, 32 pp $7.00

Things that go bump in the nightclub in over 100 British inns and taverns. Succinct tales of ghostly pirates; kitchenmaids; landlords; Green, Red, and Grey Ladies. Ghosts of Dick Whittington, Lady Jane Grey, and the nursemaid to Cromwell's children. Horrors like the curse of the mummified cat at the Mill Hotel in Sudbury or the sound of a body being dragged across the stable where two children were murdered by their father or the scratching and whimpering heard by the fireplace at the Crown Inn where a dog was beaten to death by its drunken master. Lends a whole new meaning to the term, "Pub Crawl."

Item #17

The Haunted Places of Hampshire, Ian Fox, 1993, map, photos, biblio, index, 152 pp $13.95

If you enjoyed the Jarrold series of ghost books (Ghosts of the Broads, Haunted East Anglia) you’ll find this UK import just the chilling thing for bedtime reading. Terrific contemporary sightings of traditional types of spooks like monks, grey ladies and phantom carriages, as well as ghostly scents, spook lights, and black dogs. The Reverend Robert Powles, the last Beaulieu parish priest, who saw and spoke with the ghostly Cistercian monks regularly and conducted a special Midnight Mass each Christmas, the ghost-monks forming the congregation! Frenchman’s Alley in Fareham, where a ghostly WWI soldier, charging with his bayonet, was seen going through a brick wall. An evil house at Hopfield. The cursed portrait of Breamore House.

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