13 CORNISH GHOST STORIES

13 CORNISH GHOST STORIES

Edited by Marie Macneill and Joanne Ella Parsons & illustrated by Derek Hayes

Includes stories from:
Kate Riordan, Marie Macneill, Roz Watkins, Jane Johnson, Emma Cowell, Liz Fenwick, Pauline Sheppard, Graham Mitchell, Joanne Ella Parsons, Tony Cowell, Emily Barr, Nicola K Smith, Annamaria Murphy

With a foreword from Katie Fforde

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