Susan Hill Susan Hill

Futile phantoms

<em>Haunted Britain; A Ghost Tour of London; Ghosts of the British Isles;Victorian Ghosts; Railway Ghosts; Hotel Ghosts; Ghosts of the Civil War; Ghosts of Derbyshire/Cornwall/Yorkshire/Devon/Scotland/the Cotswolds.Drop into any local bookshop around the country and you are pretty sure to find a shiny-covered, heavily illustrated paperback about ghosts of the region. </em>The list above was taken from a lightning visit to the pages of Amazon.

  • The English Ghost

    Peter Ackroyd

    Chatto, pp. 276

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