The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time

An enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style. The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits - some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. The ENGLISH GHOST is a treasury of such sightings - which we can believe or not, as we will. Comical and scary, like all good ghost stories, these curious incidents also plumb the depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice, ...