Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts

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

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’ ……