Ghosts and Legends of Northumbria

Ghosts & Legends

by Beryl Homes

Tragic tales of brave knights who attempt to rescue beautiful Sir Guy at Dunstanburgh and the sad tale of the Hermit of Warkworth... Haunted houses and Knaresdale Hall, Haughton Castle, Chillingham Castle, Bellister Castle and Featherstonehaugh...Mysterious appearances of White Ladies, Silky and Meg o'Meldon... Legends of St. Cuthbert and King Arthur...Ghosts of murder victims appear at Willington Mill, South Shields, Lumley Mill and in Weardale...Fantastical The Laidley Worm of Spindleston, near Bamburgh and the legendary Lambton Worm...

64 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

Reviews

[Darth Miky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mi piacciono questi libretti comprati nei gift shop dei siti turistici, offrono un sacco di spunti per chi, come me, ne è sempre alla ricerca per buttar giù qualche racconto.

[Behrooz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of fun based on places that I know.

[T R Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short and light book on Northumbrian legends that nonetheless is quite interesting. The book contains twenty-two stories, each between two and four pages long. Due to the short length of each story, this is a good book to dip into now and again whenever the mood strikes.

The majority of the stories in the book are ghost stories, often tied to a house or castle, and all of them are quite interesting, but tend to follow the usual patterns of traditional ghost stories. As well as these, there are also a couple of stories about dragons local to Northumbria, as well as a section about various Arthurian legends from the area.