Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these stories by the eight contemporary writers, is a section by Andrew Martin on ghost stories and the sites that inspired them, and following that a section on accounts of strange happenings and sightings at a selections of English Heritage properties, often as recorded and related in interviews with site staff.
'They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek', by Sarah Perry
'Mr Lanyard's Last Case', by Andre Michael Hurley
'The Bunker', by Mark Haddon
'Foreboding', by Kamila Shamsie
'Never Departed More', by Stuart Evers
'The Wall', by Kate Clanchy
'As Strong as Death', by Jeanette Winterson
'Mrs Charbury at Eltham', by Max Porter
AFTERWORDS
Within These Walls: How the Castles, Abbeys and Houses of England Inspired
the Ghost Story, by Andrew Martin
A Gazetteer of English Heritage Hauntings, by Katherine Davey
Biographical Notes
