Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

With tales from: Sarah Perry, Andrew Hurley, Mark Haddon, Kamila Shamsie, Stuart Evers, Kate Clanchy, Jeanette Winterson and Max Porter.

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.