Eight Ghosts

Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these stories by the eight contemporary writers, is a section by Andrew Martin on ghost stories and the sites that inspired them, and following that a section on accounts of strange happenings and sightings at a selections of English Heritage properties, often as recorded and related in interviews with site staff. SELLING POINTS: . New ghosts stories by well-known writers, set in spectacular historical properties . New illustrations by the award-winning artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, commissioned especially for this new edition . A gazetteer of English Heritage properties thought to be haunted, including first-hand accounts from staff and staff records of peculiar events 16 b/w illustrations