Haunted Cotswolds
Title | Haunted Cotswolds PDF eBook |
Author | Diz White |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2010-12-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752462393 |
Spine-chilling tales of ghosts, ghouls and the undead have been gathered here from every corner of the Cotswolds, revealing in heart-stopping detail this region's unexplained events and the creepy elements that lurk just beneath its rolling hills and beautiful vistas. These stories, illustrated with more than sixty photographs, include: King Charles I's headless haunting of Chavenage House; the ghost of Warwick Castle as he emerges from his portrait; the ghouls of the Ram Inn, the most haunted building in Britain; the banshee of Banbury Cross; and a ghostly Guy Fawkes and his conspirators who still plot to blow up Parliament. In this volume, descriptions of Cotswold architecture and history are woven into thrilling stories of supernatural happenings, promising those with an interest in the paranormal terrifying dreams for years to come.
Cotswolds Memoir
Title | Cotswolds Memoir PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Larrabee Industries Inc |
Pages | 184 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0957116233 |
Gloucestershire Folk Tales
Title | Gloucestershire Folk Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Nanson |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0752477951 |
Gloucestershire's stories go back to the days of Sabrina, spirit of the Severn, and the Nine Hags of Gloucester. Tales tell of sky-ships over Bristol, the silk-caped wraith of Dover's Hill, snow foresters on the Cotswolds, and Cirencester's dark-age drama of snake and nipple. They uncover the tragic secrets of Berkeley Castle and the Gaunts' Chapel, a lonely ghost haunting an ancient inn, and twenty-first-century beasts in the Forest of Dean. From the intrigue and romance of town and abbey to the faery magic of the wild, here are thirty of the county's most enchanting tales, brought imaginatively to life by a dynamic local storyteller.
Paranormal Oxford
Title | Paranormal Oxford PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Andrews |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010-10-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1445630095 |
Join Ross Andrews on his journey through haunted Oxford.
Paranormal Forest of Dean
Title | Paranormal Forest of Dean PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Andrews |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2010-03-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1445630028 |
Join Ross Andrews on his journey through the magical haunted Forest of Dean.
The English Civil War
Title | The English Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Charles J Esdaile |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Military |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2024-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1399037528 |
Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.
Haunted England
Title | Haunted England PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Westwood |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0141959533 |
Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...