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What the critics say

Ackroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle
- Mail on Sunday

A rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights
- New Statesman

This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways
- Independent

Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches
- Metro

A fascinating anthology of sightings of ghosts in England over the centuries
- Literary Review

A winning compendium
- Daily Telegraph

He has found some sterling stories. It's for life, not just for Hallowe'en
- TheBookBag.co.uk

Everybody loves a good ghost story and this selection of spooky sightings, both scary and comical, will certainly satisfy an appetite for eerie reading
- Daily Express

The stories have a pleasing strangeness, even, or perhaps especially if one does not believe in ghosts
- Independent on Sunday

The story of the phantom hitchhiker did give me the creeps
- Herald