Haunted Cheltenham

This collection of chilling tales from Cheltenham and its surroundings would be enough to frighten the wits out of most paranormal fanatics, but the horror is taken up a notch in this volume because Prestbury, reputedly the most haunted village in Britain, lies within its borders.

Illustrated with over sixty atmospheric photographs, this book includes scary stories of a Civil War spook, a spinet-playing shade, a time-stealing sprite, an out-of-body-experience spectre, a snake-ridden and skull-faced phantom, and a bedroom-wrecking banshee. Descriptions of the town’s architecture and history are woven into jaw-dropping stories of spooky happenings that will captivate any reader with a taste for the supernatural.

DIZ WHITE is a British-born actress who writes plays, television and film scripts for Paramount, Disney, HBO and Showtime, and magazine articles for Los Angeles Magazine. Her non-fiction book, The Comedy Group Book, was published in the US by Smith and Kraus in 2007.

Diz has a huge passion for all things Cotswold, and a researcher’s interest in the paranormal. She divides her time between her LA house and her much-loved cottage in Langford, near Lechlade.