Product Description
by M. J. Wayland (Author)
Best-selling author, ghost historian and researcher MJ Wayland has carefully selected some of the most intriguing and scary ghost stories that Britain has to offer. From Black-eyed children ghost sightings, the ghosts of Kate Middleton's family home to a guide to Britain's most haunted locations, this compendium of frights offers ideal bite size reading at anytime, except maybe when you go to bed....Cases included: Kate Middleton's GhostThe Ghost and the MurdererThe Mystery of the Black-eyed ChildrenHaughton Castle SpectreVampires of the BordersPhantom Cannons of HullLancashire's Most Haunted HousesThe Ghost ShipClapham Woods: Haunted or Cursed?Oxford's Haunted CollegesScreaming SkullsGhosts of Balgonie Castle, The Jorrock's SkullIsle of the DeadThe Phantom HandScotland's Most Haunted RoadA Haunting VillageThe Ghosts of Street HouseA to Z of Britain's Scariest GhostsAND LOTS MORE GHOST STORIE
Author Biography
MJ Wayland is a writer, researcher and historian specialising in ghosts, supernatural belief and fringe history. His research has appeared in dozens of publications and he has consulted and appeared in over one hundred television programmes and documentaries. During the last ten years he has lectured internationally as well as appearing at The Sunday Times Literature Festival (along side Professor Bruce Hood) and various festivals and universities across the UK. MJ Wayland's interest in the paranormal, especially ghosts, began at an early age after experiencing a number of unusual incidents that his peers could not explain. In his early teens he joined various research societies and began to study the multiple facets to the paranormal with a scientific and historical viewpoint. His research has taken him from dark haunted castles of Britain to the haunted graveyards of New Orleans, investigating his primary love of ghosts to sightings of black panthers. Since the mid-1990s, MJ Wayland has provided consultancy for TV, film and theatre as well as appearing in local, national, international newspapers, radio and TV. He is the author of eight best-selling books, "50 Real Ghost Stories" holding the Amazon top 10 best-selling Paranormal book for the second consecutive Halloween in 2013. More recently he provided consultancy for the Hammer film "The Quiet Ones" and an undisclosed Universal Pictures movie due later this year. His website can be found at www.mjwayland.com
