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

Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents

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' ...

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Review

"Wonderfully chilling." —the Times

"An enjoyable amble across Britain's phantasmagorical map and a guide to a quirky part of our cultural heritage." —Financial Times

"It is the rich variety of ghosts that is really striking." —Mail on Sunday

About the Author

Jennifer Westwood is the author of Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain, Gothick Cornwall, Lost Atlantis, and On Pilgrimage. Jacqueline Simpson is the author of A Dictionary of English Folklore with Steve Roud, as well as British Dragons, The Folklore of the Welsh Border, and Icelandic Folktales and Legends.