Ghost story set in Greenwich Park

[elricc]

I read a story as a kid set in Greenwich Park, London. This would have been in the 70's, and I am sure it was in a pulp. Anyone have any recollections of it. I lived right near Greenwich Park and used to be terrified walking through it.

[dem bones]

Hi Elric

Can you give us some more to go on? It didn't have something to do with a haunted tree, did it?

[PeterC]

There's not many horror stories set in parks, for sure.

I do remember one from a later volume of the Pan series where the crumbling body of a rich old man in a wheelchair was gradually fed to the ducks. Does anyone else remember it?

[dem bones]

Yeah, it's Lindsay Stewart's Strictly For The Birds from #9. That one's set on Primrose Hill.

[Calenture]

I've been doing some Googling. I learned that there are conduits running under Greenwhich Park, which look as if there should be ghosts in them!

here

This page at
The Greenwich Phantom (blog) lists a few ghosts if you scroll down.

If you look in this Google search, you'll see Greenwich Park is mentioned along with The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories and Beryl Bainbridge (3 from top in search) - but the page itself doesn't show either ghosts or Greenwich, when I load it.

Dem has The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories with a Bainbridge story called The Leaf Sweeper.

[elricc]

I can't remeber at all, except it was to do with the hill which leads up to the observatory. I have been looking for years and never come across it.
Mike Chislett has written some superb ghost stories about the area, but these are in the last few years.

[Craig Herbertson]

'The birds' was a really terrifying story. I can still see that little paper bag with the food stuff.