An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Ackroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless
you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the
hairs on the back of your neck bristle -- Simon Griffith * Mail on
Sunday *
A rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights
* New Statesman *
This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and
unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal
byways -- Roger Clarke * Independent *
Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to
downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken
and Halloween approaches -- Tina Jackson * Metro *
A fascinating anthology of sightings of ghosts in England over the
centuries -- Andrew Lycett * Literary Review *
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