An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over
the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection,
see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own
particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the
dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent,
some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval
times to today stories have been told and apparitions seen --
ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who
just want to have fun.
The English Ghost is a treasury of such sightings which we can
believe or not, as we will. The accounts, packed with eerie detail,
range from the door-slamming, shrieking ghost of Hinton Manor in
the 1760s and the moaning child that terrified Wordsworth's nephew
at Cambridge, to the headless bear of Kidderminster, the violent
daemon of Devon who tried to strangle a man with his cravat and the
modern-day hitchhikers on Bluebell Hill. Comical and scary, like
all good ghost stories, these curious incidents also plumb the
depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice, freedom
and love.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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