Book description
Shiver at the story of the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley
Square no one has survived seeing.
Listen for the tapping cane, when Jeremy Bentham s mummified body
walks through the corridors of University College.
Watch out for the Roman centurion who still patrols the causeway
linking Mersea Island to Essex.
Shudder at the ghosts of kings and queens that keep returning to
their old home at Windsor.
Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting presages fatal
accidents.
England s history echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and
hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, of premonitions of
death and indelible blood-stains. Here, county by county and place by
place, Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson gather together all
the most interesting supernatural tales from The Lore of the
Land. From a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to landlords
appeals against rates (because no one will rent their haunted house),
from the phantom hitchhiker of the Blackwall Tunnel to Francis Drake s
drum summoning him when England is in danger, these fascinating and
unforgettable stories are part of our legendary past and present.
Jennifer Westwood's books include
Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain
(1985),
Gothick Cornwall
(1992),
Lost Atlantis
(1997) and
On Pilgrimage
(2003). She lives in rural Norfolk. Dr Jacqueline Simpson's books
include
Icelandic Folktales and Legends
(1971, 2004),
The Folklore of the Welsh Border
(1976, 2004),
British Dragons
(1980, 2000), and, with Steve Roud,
A Dictionary of English Folklore
(2000). She lives in West Sussex.
