Description
13 Cornish Ghost Stories, edited by Marie Macneill and Joanne Ella Parsons & illustrated by Derek Hayes
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
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