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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2021 16:12:51 GMT
Ghosts & Witches of the Cotswolds cont.
Worcester and the North West: Cover star explained.
Other phantoms of note include a headless coachman steering a phantom carriage from Littleton toward Bretforton. A second spectral coach, this one driven by a man with slashed open throat, vanishes on reaching Evesham Abbey. Also, Cromwell's pact with Satan on the eve of the decisive Battle of Worcester, and a swineherd receives a visit from the Blessed Virgin.
Around Stratford: Apparently hopeless for all but the most mundane hauntings.
The Ghosts of Warwick and the East: Featuring Moll Bloxham, the fifteenth century were-milkmaid of Warwick Castle; Sir Fulke Greville, misty phantom of 'the Bogey Room'; the hanged priest of Chipping Norton, & Co. Also, the Lord Chief Justice who called upon a ghost to give evidence in a murder trial.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2021 13:51:03 GMT
Jack Hallam - Ghosts of London (Wolfe, 1975) Preface Acknowledgements
City and East End West End and West Central Westminster and Chelsea South East and Northern Haunts Suburbs — north of the Thames Suburbs — south of the Thames Outside London Berkshire Buckingharnshire Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Oxfordshire Surrey Sussex Books consulted
Maps The Haunted City London‘s Haunted Suburbs London's Haunted CountryBlurb: London, where millions of people live out their daily lives against a backdrop of two thousand years of often violent history, is possibly the most haunted area in the world.
Not only is the heart of this great metropolis substantially populated by a host of shadowy figures left behind by the drama and tragedy of history, but also the quiet streets of suburbia. Further afield, beyond the stockbroker belt, is London's countryside with an ample share of haunted inns and highways, churches and stately homes.
Jack Hallam, whose successful The Haunted Inns of England has been a most popular seller, reports on more than two hundred of these hauntings. Many are cases never before published, brought to light by diligent research and persistent probing, the majority supported by eye-witness accounts. They are illustrated with photographs, old prints and maps detailing the locations of the hauntings.
This magnificent book, covering as it does not only the postal district of London, but its suburbs, the whole commuter area and the country where Londoners take their leisure, will be immensely popular with all who practise ghost-hunting.
Cover photographs by Chris Thornton show Jimmy Garrickhythe, the mummified body preserved in a glass-fronted coffin in St. James's Church, Garlick Hill, off Upper Thames Street. The mummy is no longer on view to the public but Jimmy's ghost has been seen in the nave of the Wren Church.Includes all the big hitters alongside less familiar cases. The Black Nun of the Bank, Thora Hird vs the Victorian monkey suit, the Phantom #7 Bus of Kensington, Frank Smythe's immortal if entirely fictitious Murder Vicar of Ratcliffe Wharf, Black Sally's suicide tree in Hyde Park, 'Smelly Nelly' of the Gargoyle Club, the Walking Mummy of University College, Lady Constantia 'too beautiful to live' Coleraine of Bruce Castle, the phantom Benedictines of St. Marys, Hendon, the demon cyclist of H**hgate Cemetery, and that infernal ever-squawking frozen chicken of Pond Square. Lay out is similar to Andrew Green's Our Haunted Kingdom (Wolfe, 1973). Strangely for a book on London Ghosts, a third is devoted to hauntings far on the outskirts of, and even far from the capital, including the four Midsomer Counties.' Some material reprinted from the same author's The Haunted Inns of England. Attractive selection of photo's and period illustrations. Unusually thorough acknowledgements run to four pages and include Barbara Cartland, Andrew Green, Thora Hird, James Wentworth Day, and Peter Wyngarde.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 5, 2021 14:31:18 GMT
Inevitably, I'm fixated on Thora Hird vs. the Victorian monkey suit. I have no idea and I must investigate. The only thing I'm sure of is it wasn't "that cream cracker under the settee."
Thanks Dem!
H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 5, 2021 15:24:55 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Mar 5, 2021 17:47:37 GMT
Also to be found in in Hainings' Mammoth Book of True Hauntings:
Just bought the original Archer book, since I found a cheap copy. It's on Int*rnet Arch*ve, but only borrowable for 1hr.
EDIT: Should have read the 1hr copy, the print book had absolutely nothing of interest except the monkey suit story. A rare occasion where I gave away a book right after reading it.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 13, 2021 17:55:56 GMT
Marvels & Mysteries: Ghosts (Parrallel /Orbis 1995) The Bell Witch Strikes Understanding Ghosts Celtic Harbingers of Death The Horror of Glamis A Guilt-Ridden Ghost Poltergeist Paradoxes Howls of Horror Borley: a Haunting Tale Borley: the Tension Mounts Borley Revisited Unexpected Developments The Curse of Fyvie Castie Amityville - Horror or Hoax A House Possessed? Haunted Taverns Haunting of a Scottish Castle Curse of the Hexham Heads The Haunting of Borley Church Vampires: Myth and Reality Eyewitness — Ghost Monitor Ghosts without Souls Another Scottish Haunting Spirits on the Rampage The Curse on Killakee Power of the Pentagram Sex and the Mischievous Spirit Animal Extras Eyewitness — After-Time Visitor Voices from the DeadBlurb: Have you ever seen a ghost? Has a ghost ever seen you? Would you spend a night in a haunted castle? Do you know the meaning of the banshee's wail? How would you set about contacting, talking to or photographing a ghost? Have you really got anything to fear from things that go bump in the night?
The book tells the stories of some of the best-known hauntings and some you may not have read elsewhere - and leaves you to decide whether you believe in ghosts.Made first post-lockdown Spitalfields Crypt charity shop (Watney Market chapter) find this morning. A handy slimline compilation of most of the ghost content from the 'eighties part work, The Unexplained. Borley Rectory serial, Frank Smyth and the Murder Vicar of Ratcliffe Wharf, Enfield poltergeist, Monster of Glamis featuring the Queen Mum, the Hexham Heads, electronic voice phenomena, phantom bus of Kensington High Street, etc. Feature on haunted pubs includes a near neighbour, the Town of Ramsgate in Wapping (near the Little Free Library box), reputedly the haunt of 'Bloody' Judge Jeffreys and the aforementioned imaginary killer clergyman.
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Post by humgoo on Apr 14, 2021 16:52:48 GMT
Made first post-lockdown Spitalfields Crypt charity shop (Watney Market chapter) find this morning. Congratulations! Not bad for your first post-lock down excursion, I guess! May your spidey sense never leave you! Very heartening to hear these things really. Keep us posted!
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Post by dem bones on Apr 14, 2021 18:43:26 GMT
Made first post-lockdown Spitalfields Crypt charity shop (Watney Market chapter) find this morning. Congratulations! Not bad for your first post-lock down excursion, I guess! May your spidey sense never leave you! Very heartening to hear these things really. Keep us posted! Thank you! It had been a long time, well before Christmas far as I can remember? What's left of the Sunday market should be back this weekend, too. Hope things are at least bearable where you are.
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Post by humgoo on Apr 15, 2021 17:17:34 GMT
What's left of the Sunday market should be back this weekend, too. Very chuffed to hear this. In my region the circulation of second-hand books (whether Chinese or English ones) doesn't really exist, so I always derive vicarious pleasure through reading your and others' book-hunting here on the Vault. (Even Mr. Doig's "Got a PBoH#30 for $2. My third copy." type of post gives me great pleasure, in a teeth-grinding, fist-clenching way. Apparently all good books end up down under.) Can't talk about bookshops, but there's real joy when I frequented the pub near my place recently, which for some time I had feared would close for good. Many shops have, somehow, survived. I hope you will feel the same joy soon.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 15, 2021 22:40:58 GMT
(Even Mr. Doig's "Got a PBoH#30 for $2. My third copy." type of post gives me great pleasure, in a teeth-grinding, fist-clenching way. Apparently all good books end up down under.) I'm off to a few book sales with a mate today and tomorrow. He runs a second hand bookshop in Perth - when I went to his shop the other day he had the Centipede Press edition of KEW's Dark Crusade in the expensive books cabinet. He bought it for $3 at a charity shop and is now asking $240! I'll see if he'll give me mates rates. He's the guy who picked up 6 Tartarus Press books for $3 each at a charity sale a few years ago and sold them to me, in other words he's the bastard giving me "teeth-grinding pleasure". If I find anything I'll post it.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 16, 2021 19:31:56 GMT
(Even Mr. Doig's "Got a PBoH#30 for $2. My third copy." type of post gives me great pleasure, in a teeth-grinding, fist-clenching way. Apparently all good books end up down under.) I'm off to a few book sales with a mate today and tomorrow. He runs a second hand bookshop in Perth - when I went to his shop the other day he had the Centipede Press edition of KEW's Dark Crusade in the expensive books cabinet. He bought it for $3 at a charity shop and is now asking $240! I'll see if he'll give me mates rates. He's the guy who picked up 6 Tartarus Press books for $3 each at a charity sale a few years ago and sold them to me, in other words he's the bastard giving me "teeth-grinding pleasure". If I find anything I'll post it. The Centipede Press was one of those limited edition things which are usually sold out before they are released. 5 novels. They look impressive, no doubt.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 17, 2021 12:59:13 GMT
The Centipede Press was one of those limited edition things which are usually sold out before they are released. 5 novels. They look impressive, no doubt. [/quote] It's the first time I'd seen a Centipede Press book, and they certainly do a fine job - I ended up forking out $200: free photo hostArt is by Tom Kidd, who I'd never heard of, and he's excellent: free photo hostCouple of other purchases for the more reasonable price of a buck each, including the 3rd Michel Parry drug antho, which I didn't know he'd done: free photo host
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Post by dem bones on Jul 5, 2021 18:22:47 GMT
Peter Ackroyd - The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time (Vintage, Oct, 2011) Introduction
The Phantom in the House The events in Hinton Manor The glass tube The Cheltenham Ghost The Whiskered Gentleman The old Staircase The corpse in Spitalfields Dr. Johnson's friend The Gentlewoman The old press The shudder The old saloon The Barby apparition Mother Leakey The unfurnished room The scratching The restless suicide Mrs. M — The drunkard At the end of the hall The chattering voices The little girl House guests
The wandering ghost The woman in the field The figure in the road Strange news from Spraiton The scream A fantastical young man The hole in the wall Blue Bell Hill The phantom of the A58 The railway traveller Old nettles The horseman Witness saw no one The apparitions Come up here The lady in white The walking party
Clerical souls Palms outwards The boy in the schoolroom The visitor in the library The church at Langenhoe The nun of Barking The ghost in the window Borley Rectory
Animal spirits The disappearing dachshund What would it have? The bear
Moving things Poltergeist The carpenters Fly like lightening The Enfield affair The Runcorn mystery Dust and dirt The drummer of Tedworth The ghosts of Willington Mill Invisible blows Old Jeffrey Vomiting coals Broken glass The house in Hammersmith Events at Bow The excommunicate The killer of babies The young man
The living and the dead The brother The summer visitor The dream of death What is the matter with him? The living The man in the white hat The living ghost The woman and the lard In the bath The dying mother Father and daughter The phantom carriage The message The uncle The story of John Donne
BibliographyBlurb The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun.
The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.Ackroyd ransacks multiple 'True Ghost' books for his particular favourites. Vast majority of entries are short, the alleged ghosts often mundane. All grist to mill. Ivan Banks - The Enigma of Borley Rectory (Foulsham, 1996) Tom Perrot - Foreword
Acknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations Introduction
Borley and its Surroundings The Building of Borley Rectory The Hauntings ... 1863 to 1927 The Nun Makes her Appearance Edward Cooper and the Stable Cottage The Story Continues ... 1928 to 1935 The Final Pre-war Years ... 1936 to 1939 Ghosts Among the Ruins. The Site from 1939 to 1945 The Reverend Henry Dawson Bull The Reverend Henry Foyster Bull The Reverend Guy and Mabel Smith The Reverend Lionel Foyster and Marianne The Tenancy of Harry Price Gregson and the Fire — The Rectory's Last Tenant James Turner and the Rectory Cottage Bones and a Tunnel: an Archaeological Aspect The Monastery Controversy A Lost Ghost and Sir Edward Waldegrave The Enigmas of Marie Lairre: A Search for the Borley Nun The Katie Boreham Mystery Some Other Possibilities The Screaming Girl Mystery The Seances Some Views from Contemporaries A Resumé of Some 50 Years of Borley Chronicles Glanville's Locked Book
In Conclusion Select Bibliography IndexBlurB; Was the haunting of Borley Rectory caused by fraud? Did the late Harry Price, one of Britain's leading psychic researchers, really fake phenomena? Who was murdered in the Rectory, and is the mysterious ghostly nun connected with one of England's leading families? Ten years‘ research reveals fascinating, intriguing and controversial new material relating to the identity of the phantoms in the house, the connection with Marianne Foyster and the disastrous fire which destroyed Britain's most haunted house. And thanks to haunted helrunar for forwarding this photo, found ...? Apologies to photographer for lack of namecheck. Thank you, whoever you are.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 5, 2021 18:35:49 GMT
Peter Ackroyd - The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time (Vintage, Oct, 2011)
Peter Ackroyd is a well known novelist. I can't remember if it was Dickens or Blake that he became so obsessed with that he began to hallucinate him in the room. Probably Blake, as he did the same thing, his specialty was angels. I looked and he has produced a huge amount of books. Most seem instantly forgotten.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 5, 2021 19:24:02 GMT
Peter Ackroyd is a well known novelist. I can't remember if it was Dickens or Blake that he became so obsessed with that he began to hallucinate him in the room. Probably Blake, as he did the same thing, his specialty was angels. I looked and he has produced a huge amount of books. Most seem instantly forgotten. In my worthless opinion, his London: The Biography is a superb achievement. Not quite in same stratosphere, but still interesting, London Under, a trawl of the city beneath the city. Anyone read his ghost novel, Hawksmoor?
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