![]() ‘England is a haunted country’ which Ackroyd explains by way of a mingling of ‘Germanic,Nordic and British (Celtic) superstitions. ![]() Some of the more noteworthy accounts are ‘The Glass Tube’,’The Scream’ and ‘The Bear’ all uniquely weird accounts of paranormal happenings in their own way.From the first line of the book. ![]() From the internecine strife of the English Civil War to the lace and crinoline era of the Victorians. The celebrated author of ‘Hawksmoor’ and ‘Albion-The Origin of the English Imagination’ has gathered newspaper reports,publications and personal letters. English cultural historian Peter Ackroyd’s book ‘The English Ghost’ is a collection of accounts of hauntings,spectres and paranormal events of high strangeness from England’s past. ![]()
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