Download or read book Cumbrian Ghost Stories written by Walker and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost stories such as A West Cumberland Coal Mine; modern horror stories such as The Derwentwater Haunting, or the Highest Inn in England, stories based on local legends such as the Mallerstang Boggle and the Little Man of Carlisle, and some folk horror themed stories such as the Grizedale Wedding.
Download or read book More Cumbrian Ghost Stories written by Tony Walker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Cumbrian Ghost Stories brings you sixteen ghost stories, horror stories, weird tales, dark fairytales set in the English county of Cumbria and the Lake District by Tony Walker, author of Cumbrian Ghost Stories and narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. From The Milk-White Child of Ravenglass, to A Brief Stop in Barrow in Furness, The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth, The Dalston Vampire, not to mention the High Harrington Horror and the Mole Catcher of Barbon, these stories dance around the county of Cumbria to horrify, scare, terrify and also a make you smile and even laugh depending on the tale. For those who have enjoyed Cumbrian Ghost Stories, London Horror Stories, Haunted Castles and Horror Stories For Halloween, this is more of the same from Tony Walker's inimitable style.
Download or read book Cumbrian Ghost Stories written by Tony Walker and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost stories such as A West Cumberland Coalmine, modern horror stories such as The Derwentwater Haunting and The Highest Inn in England, stories based on local legends such as The Mallerstang Boggle and The Little Man of Carlisle, and some folk-horror themed stories such as The Grizedale Forest Wedding. Tony Walker is the narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast.
Download or read book Cumbrian Ghost Stories written by Richard Holland and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Cumbrian Ghost Stories written by Tony Walker and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a collection of sixteen chilling tales set in the eerie landscapes of Cumbria and the Lake District. Within these pages, encounter vampires, fairy kings, and menacing monsters lurking in the shadows of Kendal, Carlisle, Barrow, Baron, and the untamed Western reaches of Cumbria. These stories will send shivers down your spine, evoke bone-chilling terror, and even elicit an unexpected smile before jolting you with fear.
Download or read book Cumbrian Folk Tales written by Taffy Thomas MBE and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These engaging folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has brought back to life. Shaped by the natural world, local customs and generations of chattering, these traditional tales reflect the unique Cumbrian wit and wisdom. Herein you will find intriguing accounts of Hunchback and the Swan, the Screaming Skulls of Calgarth, the Millom Hob Thross, Hughie the Graeme, Cumbrian Crack, and Billy Peascod's Harp. They will make you want to visit the places where they happened and meet some of the characters that feature in them. Including charming illustrations from the local artist Steven Gregg, this captivating collection will be enjoyed by readers time and again. Taffy Thomas has lived in Grasmere for well over thirty years, and is a highly experienced storyteller with a repertoire of more than 300 tales. In the 2001 New Year Honours List he was awarded the MBE for services to storytelling and charity, and in 2010 was appointed as the first UK Storyteller Laureate.
Download or read book Ghostly Cumbria written by Rob Kirkup and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reports of haunted castles, stately halls, hotels, public houses, Roman forts, stone circles and even England's deepest lake, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly Cumbria investigates twenty of the most haunted locations to be found in the area today. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this selection includes a phantom friar said to walk the lanes near Grey Friars Lodge Hotel in Clappersgate; the ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots at Carlisle Castle; a cavalier at Moresby Hall in Whitehaven; and several ghosts at the Kirkstone Pass Inn at Ambleside, including a young boy killed by a coach outside the building, a young woman who died whilst travelling along the road during a snow storm, and a seventeenth-century coachman who lurks around the bar. Illustrated with sixty photographs, together with access details for each location, this book will appeal to all those interested in finding out more about Cumbria's haunted heritage.
Download or read book The Corpse Roads of Cumbria written by Alan Cleaver and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the black and white version. There is also a full colour version on Amazon. Criss-crossing the Cumbrian landscape are many trods, paths, lonnings and other ancient trackways. Included among these are several corpse roads. The enigmatic name hints at their curious origins. These paths were used until the 18th Century to transport the dead from the remote villages to the 'mother' church for burial. Eventually villagers petitioned for their own churches and burial rights but the corpse roads remained. Alan Cleaver and Lesley Park have researched these ancient paths and the stories surrounding them. The book also explores Cumbrian funeral customs and superstitions.
Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
Download or read book Bewitched written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and Beyond”. The stories include ghost stories, character studies and social dramas set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. Along with “The Young Gentleman”, “Bewitched” shows clear Gothic leanings, especially in its emphasis on architecture and the gradual revealing of secrets. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and designer. She is famous for using her intimate knowledge of aristocratic New York society to authentically portray life during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Other notable works by this author include: “A Son at the Front” (1923), “The Mother's Recompense” (1925), and “Twilight Sleep” (1927). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Cumbrian Folk Tales written by Taffy Thomas and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has had to breathe life back into. From the lore of the land to ghost stories, fairy stories, tales of the ‘oak men’, and the true historical tales that inspired many of the famous and haunting legends of Cumbria’s wild landscape, no chair by the fireside is complete without it. These tales will make you want to visit the places where they happened and meet some of the characters who told them to the author.Taffy Thomas, MBE, is the first laureate for storytelling. He lives in Grasmere.
Download or read book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk written by Frank Cowper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.
Download or read book The Shadow of a Shade Fantasy and Horror Classics written by Tom Hood and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Ghosts and Family Legends written by Catherine Crowe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and Family Legends is a collection of 26 horror stories and supernatural tales told by a group of people closed in a large country mansion, during one cold winter, over several scary nights. Round the Fire Stories: The Lover's Farewell The Appointment Kept The White Cat Passing Spirits The Garde Chasse The Carrier Rehearsals, etc Prophetic Dreams The Vigil The Strange Dog The Scotch Minister The Radiant Boy The Prediction Haunted Houses The Justification The German Inn The Benighted Traveller My own Visit to a Haunted House Mr. G.'s Adventure Conclusion to First Part Legends of the Earthbound: The Italian's Story The Dutch Officer's Story The Old Frenchman's Story The Swiss Lady's Story The Sheep Farmer's Story My Friend's Story
Download or read book Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance written by M. R. James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".James was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England, although his parents had associations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. From the age of three (1865) until 1909 his home, if not always his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. This had also been the childhood home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, "Honest Tom" Martin (1696–1771) "of Palgrave." Several of his ghost stories are set in Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Warning to the Curious" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere). He lived for many years, first as an undergraduate, then as a don and provost, at King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Pitt Club. The university provides settings for several of his tales. Apart from medieval subjects, James studied the classics and appeared very successfully in a staging of Aristophanes' play The Birds, with music by Hubert Parry. His ability as an actor was also apparent when he read his new ghost stories to friends at Christmas time.In September 1873 he arrived as a boarder at Temple Grove School, one of the leading boys' preparatory schools of the day.James is best known for his ghost stories, but his work as a medievalist scholar was prodigious and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. Indeed, the success of his stories was founded on his antiquarian talents and knowledge. His discovery of a manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots described by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a contemporary chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. His 1917 edition of the Latin Lives of Saint Aethelberht, king and martyr (English Historical Review 32), remains authoritative.He catalogued many of the manuscript libraries of the Cambridge colleges. Among his other scholarly works, he wrote The Apocalypse in Art, which placed illuminated Apocalypse manuscripts into families. He also translated the New Testament Apocrypha and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His ability to wear his learning lightly is apparent in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), in which a great deal of knowledge is presented in a popular and accessible form, and in Abbeys (Great Western Railway, 1925).James also achieved a great deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893–1908). He managed to secure a large number of important paintings and manuscripts, including notable portraits by Titian.James was Provost of Eton College from 1918 to 1936. He died in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
Download or read book Strange Epiphanies written by Peter Bell and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calvariae Disjecta written by Robert Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most ubiquitous English ghost stories, The Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall, is a fine example of the persistence and reiteration of a popular narrative over many years.Drawing from decades of research, artist Robert Williams re-presents references to the story from more than 100 popular sources that extend across more than 150 years.The project, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Hilmar Sch�fer, echoes the transmission of the story as quoted text, oral tradition and downright plagiarism, as it draws together many references across time to a story that tells us as much about cultural and historical representations, as it does a lurid tale of murder, grave-opening, and screaming skulls.Contributors to the project include artist James Brook, artist and writer Dr.Kate Briggs, and cultural sociologist Dr. Hilmar Sch�fer. Robert Williams is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts.
