Nine Ghosts

By R.H. Malden

Book Overview

A parish register, a weathered inscription or a disturbed grave may hold more than a fragment of local history. Across nine independent supernatural tales, visitors, clergymen, antiquarians and householders pursue apparitions and uncanny disturbances through rural villages, country houses, rectories and churchyards. Each inquiry begins with evidence that seems open to rational examination, yet the deeper the search reaches, the less securely reason can account for what has been uncovered. Letters, manuscripts, recollections and newspaper cuttings lend these ghost stories the texture of testimony assembled after troubling events. Family papers, portraits and monumental brasses become clues to histories shaped by witchcraft, necromancy, curses and suspected dealings with malign powers. From ruined chapels and marshes to coastal settlements and the countryside near Cambridge, place is never merely a backdrop: old customs, improper burials and local traditions continue to exert their influence long after their origins have been obscured. The collection's antiquarian method makes every document potentially revealing and every gap in the record equally unsettling. Its haunting investigations turn on the ambiguity of evidence: whether an account should be trusted, whether a coincidence can remain one, and whether the past has truly relinquished its claim upon the present. These are gothic mysteries in which curiosity carries consequences, and the attempt to explain an apparition may bring the investigator dangerously close to the forces behind it. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378419852
• ISBN13: 9789378419850
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"