Description
Product ID: | 9780099287575 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The English Ghost |
Subtitle: | Spectres Through Time |
Authors: | Author: Peter Ackroyd |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Ghosts and poltergeists, Folklore, myths & legends, Ghosts & poltergeists, England |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill. The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-10-06 |