Haunted Yorkshire : Ghostly Tales from God's Own County

The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. “Dark night, this,” I said. “Darker below,” he muttered, as though to himself; “darker, darker, darker.” Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark. Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories from Arthur Machen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Andrew Michael Hurley and many more, this collection offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the: Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.),editor Contributors: Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.),editor Binding: paperback Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language Edition: 1 Published/Release Date: 18 Jun 2026 Bic Classification: Classic horror & ghost stories bicCode: Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: British Library Publishing Author/Director/Artist: Emily Bronte Dimension (cm): 17x188x130 mm Package Dimension (cm): 27x190x129 mm Item Weight (g): 272 Package Weight (g): 270