Before the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution turned the world upside down, the Dorset countryside was remote, steeped in tradition and superstition, a fitting setting for strange and otherworldly events.
These tales recount the experiences of the Reverend Theophilus Hale, rector of Stoke Armitage, party to or witness of some of them. Spectres, witches and demons intrude into or lurk at the edges of his world, or at least of his imagination, in these old-school ghost stories.