Devon Ghost Tales
Title | Devon Ghost Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Dowling |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2018-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 075099018X |
These spooky ghost tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Janet Dowling. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these stories are as eerie and mysterious as the windswept moorland, wild shorelines and rugged landscapes from which they derive. Here you will find stories of a voice beyond the grave, a ghost on the pivot between heaven and hell, and the spectres of Viking princes on moonlit roads. Richly illustrated by Vicky Jocher with original drawings, these atmospheric tales are perfect for reading aloud in front of a roaring fire or alone under the covers on dark, stormy nights.
Classic Devon Ghost Stories
Title | Classic Devon Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Devon (England) |
ISBN | 9780850253535 |
Haunted Heritage
Title | Haunted Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Hanks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1315427605 |
In Haunted Heritage, author Michele Hanks draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork to delve into the anthropological, sociological, political, historical, and cultural factors that drive the burgeoning business of ghost or paranormal tourism.
Devon Ghosts
Title | Devon Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Brown |
Publisher | Jarrold Pub |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Ghosts |
ISBN | 9780853069614 |
Ghosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great Britain.
Bloody British History: Plymouth
Title | Bloody British History: Plymouth PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Quigley |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752481916 |
Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth's Napoleonic prison ships! 'A very daughter of Hell!' In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime? Find out inside! Death aboard the Titanic! Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach! Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will change the way you see the city forever!
Haunted Plymouth
Title | Haunted Plymouth PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Hynes |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2010-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0750954388 |
From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations, and supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms, spirits, and ghouls, this collection of spooky sightings from around the city of Plymouth is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Richly illustrated with more than 100 pictures, Haunted Plymouth contains a chilling range of tales. From the ghost of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Hoe, poltergeist activity in one of the city's Elizabethan inns and the shade of a lady in white at Widey Court, to French prisoners of war at Devonport Dockyard and a phantom pair of legs at a Mutley house, this gathering of ghostly goings-on is bound to captivate everyone interested in the paranormal history of Plymouth and will chill all but the sturdiest of hearts.
The Devil Comes to Dartmoor
Title | The Devil Comes to Dartmoor PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Quigley |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0752489801 |
Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock – the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands. A few may know the true story of her lover, George Cutteford, a Plymouth 'cutty man' who became a Puritan lawyer. Cutteford was imprisoned in the horror of Lydford Gaol, persecuted by Mary's fourth husband - Sir Richard Grenville, the most notorious and sadistic royalist General of the Civil War. But fewer still will know the secrets George Cutteford died to protect - secrets that would destroy his own family; end Grenville's career in shame; and make a boy with no name the richest landowner in Devon. Gathered from the varying historical accounts, and including primary material unearthed, hundreds of years ago, in an old fish market in London, comes this haunting true story of love, treachery and revenge in seventeenth-century Devon.