Haunted England: The Penguin Book Of Ghosts (2024)

: Kings and queens who return to their former homes, such as Windsor Castle .

Westwood and Simpson categorize a wide variety of English spirits, ranging from the historic to the strangely modern:

: Reports of a phantom army marching across the landscape and the Black Dog of Shap Fell , whose appearance is said to foretell fatal accidents. Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts

: Indelible bloodstains that refuse to be scrubbed away and ghastly premonitions of death.

The book organizes its hauntings geographically, allowing readers to explore the specific spectral flavor of each English region. : Kings and queens who return to their

: Headless highwaymen and modern legends like the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill or the Blackwall Tunnel.

: A Roman centurion who continues to patrol the causeway linking Mersea Island to the mainland. Common Spectral Archetypes The book organizes its hauntings geographically

: Features the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square , a spirit so terrifying that none have survived a sighting, and the mummified body of Jeremy Bentham walking the corridors of University College.