13 Cornish Ghost Stories
13 Cornish Ghost Stories
Emily Barr, Annamaria Murphy, Graham Mitchell, Marie Macneill, Liz Fenwick, Tony Cowell, Jane Johnson, Pauline Sheppard, Nicola K. Smith, Roz Watkins, Joanne Ella Parsons, Emma Cowell, Kate Riordan
About this book
Cornwall is the perfect setting for tales, myths, and legends. The wild moors, the granite, the clay, the rebellious sea, and flat calm coves make the county a vast and inspirational canvas. The starry nights, needle-sharp gorse, and windswept tors and carns provide perfect backdrops to eerie full moons and ghostly goings-on. Mischievous piskies dance across our landscape, while the spectres of the past, both real and imagined, haunt our memories and our dreams.
There are new stories to be told around every corner, across every ley line, behind every menhir, and in the rocks and caves that litter our shores. Another 13 are already emerging from the mists….
– from the introduction
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL39128044W
Subjects
English literatureEnglish Ghost stories