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1) Horrorsto?r
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they?ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy...
2) Chronicles of the unexplained: true stories of haunted houses, Bigfoot & other paranormal encounters
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Gary Gillespie presents a lifetime of true paranormal experiences, collected from a broad range of individuals. The events described include Bigfoot sightings, mysterious occurrences at a railyard, spirits giving their thanks from beyond, objects disappearing into thin air, and the author's own terrifying experience of living in a haunted house.
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Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
Following several personal sightings of ghosts, including that of a First World War pilot, Alan Wood has spent 60 years researching the occult. 'Military Ghosts' is the result and is designed as a gazetteer of locations where military ghosts have been reported.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. 'The English Ghost' is a treasure trove of such sightings.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
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Old Silas Kinsley is the self-appointed resident historian of The Pendleton, a 19th-century building which has now been converted into a number of highly desirable condominiums. He has discovered that there is a cycle of strangeness and tragedy in The Pendleton's past - and it is about to head into another of its disturbing cycles.
Author
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings reported across Britain's canal and waterways network: echoes in dark tunnels, stone steps stained red with blood spilled long ago, ghostly footsteps accompanying barges beneath a bridge, and more.
Author
Publisher
Particular
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The subject of whether ghosts exist has fascinated some of the finest minds in history and it remains a subject of overwhelming interest today. This comprehensive history of the evolution of the ghost in the West examines the subject in its preferred environment - through the stories we tell each other.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death. In 'Ghostland', Parnell goes in search of the 'sequestered places' of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores, and...
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2004
Description
'Supernatural Lancashire' delves into the mysteries, myths and strange phenomena of the old county of Lancashire. From Windermere in the north to Warrington in the south, Liverpool in the west and Manchester in the east, the author has produced a thoroughly researched and entertaining book.
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Merrily Watkins volume 4
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In Herefordshire's hop-growing country, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cope with the aftermath, Merrily Watkins is sent in by the Bishop of Hereford to defuse the situation. Merrily, however, is already contending with a woman's claim that her daughter is possessed by evil. In both cases Merrily remains unconvinced, but nothing is ever quite what it seems. As she is drawn into...
17) The lantern men
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Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this, and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried - but only if Ruth will do the digging. Curious, but wary,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2023
Description
For longer than recorded history there have been tales of spirits and of places where our hackles rise and our skin turns cold. Bestselling historian Neil Oliver travels the British Isles on a deliciously spine-chilling tour that spans several centuries and explores more than 20 sites - castles, vicarages and towers, lonely shorelines and forgotten battlefields - to unpick their stories. Oliver invokes his family's history alongside that of kings...