{"product_id":"the-english-ghost-spectres-through-time-9780701169893","title":"The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries  full of the spirit of place  in true Ackroyd style.  The English  Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection  see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits  from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent  some smell of old leather  others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today stories have been told and apparitions seen -- ghosts who avenge injustice  souls who long for peace  spooks who just want to have fun.  The English Ghost is a treasury of such sightings which we can believe or not  as we will. The accounts  packed with eerie detail  range from the door-slamming  shrieking ghost of Hinton Manor in the 1760s and the moaning child that terrified Wordsworths nephew at Cambridge  to the headless bear of Kidderminster  the violent daemon of Devon who tried to strangle a man with his cravat and the modern-day hitchhikers on Bluebell Hill. Comical and scary  like all good ghost stories  these curious incidents also plumb the depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice  freedom and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647886516277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0701169893","price":96.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780701169893.jpg?v=1781698846","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-english-ghost-spectres-through-time-9780701169893","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}