Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

John Henry Ingram - The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain (1884)

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This is a guidebook to various haunted houses and castles in England, places with names like Clegg Hall, Epworth Parsonage, Sykes Lamb Farm, Peele Castle and Combermere Abbey.  I have no idea where any of these are (well other than Cambridge and Oxford universities) but it's a fun collection of stories, drawn from various memoirs and periodicals.  Worth note is the entry for Roslin Chapel, better known today as Rosslyn Chapel and beloved of various kook ideas.  The author wrote about Marlowe and particularly Poe - his collection of Poe material is now at the University of Virginia.