Haunted Cornwall - Couverture souple

Newman, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752436686 ISBN 13 : 9780752436685

Editeur : The History Press, 2005

Synopsis

Ghost stories from the most haunted county in Britain.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

A highly readable, deeply intriguing work that skilfully traces the borderline where folklore melts into what may be termed the authentically supernatural. The variety of apparitions chronicled in Mr Newman?s short but gripping work is astounding. Here are doppelgangers, poltergeists, the crisis apparition of a famous admiral, the mournful revenants of the lost gardens of Heligan, the sirens ensnaring a solitary walker on the coast near Padstow, a 17th century housemaid?s encounter with fairies (that recalls A Midsummer Night's Dream), ghostly lights, ghouls that haunt burial mounds, a disturbing story featuring the Great Beast, Aleister Crowley, and the poet Rupert Brooke, and an account of an excorcism that catches the abrupt manifestation and swift, gliding movements of a restless spirit. In no other part of Britain would one find such a disturbing and blood-chilling spectral banquet. Thomas McNeff West Country Book News --Thomas McNeff - West Country Book News

Présentation de l'éditeur

For anyone who would like to know why Cornwall is called the most haunted place in Britain, this collection of stories of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural incidents from around the Duchy provides the answer. From heart-stopping accounts of poltergeists to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits who haunt prehistoric graves, Haunted Cornwall contains a chilling range of ghostly phenomena. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, it features a gory medieval murder at Poundstock; a gruelling exorcism at Botathan; the spectre of Annie George at the First and Last Inn at Sennen; a 'human double' clocking in for work at St Austell; a vanishing house at Bossiney; and a phantom stagecoach on the Mevagissey road.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752436686
• ISBN 13: 9780752436685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible