Hauntings
- Author Neil Oliver
- Narrator Neil Oliver
- Publisher Transworld
- Run Time 10 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Architecture: castles and fortifications, European history, Ghosts and poltergeists, History, Landscape architecture and design, Mind, body, spirit, Place names and gazetteers, The Arts.
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What to expect
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For longer than recorded history there have been tales of spirits and of places where our hackles rise and our skin turns cold.
Bestselling historian Neil Oliver travels the British Isles on a deliciously spine-chilling tour that spans several centuries and explores more than 20 sites - castles, vicarages and towers, lonely shorelines and forgotten battlefields - to unpick their stories..
Oliver invokes his family's history alongside that of kings and queens past as he probes why our emotions and senses are heightened in certain locations where the separation between dimensions seems gossamer thin. Our landscape is riven with these places, creaking from the weight of the secrets they hold, the echoes of tragedy and dark deeds . From Inverness to Devon, Co Dublin to Norfolk, Hauntings casts an enjoyably eerie glow with stories that, told generation after generation, are inextricable from place - and considers why they matter.
©2023 Neil Oliver (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Neil Oliver is such a very good writer. Haunted is a wonderful book: part history, part rumination on life, and, of course a haunting book about ghosts, both apparitions reportedly seen and heard, but also the lingering memories, shadows and spirits of those from the past. This is a beautifully written, fascinating, deeply moving and thought-provoking book that lingers in the mind long after the last page has been read.
James Holland -
A proper page-turner. Neil Oliver blends personal reflections with vivid stories, rooted in the culture and history of these islands – a fascinating tangle of witches and mermaids, drowned fishers and dead warriors, ghostly planes, spectral horses and the ‘thin places’ where this world touches the Otherworld.
Christopher Somerville, Walking Correspondent for The Times and author of Walking the Bones of Britain -
Wonderfully evocative. One of the most enjoyable books on the paranormal I’ve read. Neil Oliver creates a bucket list of places to visit, perfect for both paranormal investigators and history buffs alike.
Nick Tyler, author of Haunted Yorkshire
I was particularly impressed with the way in which Oliver explores the fragility of life and death and our idea of what a ghost actually is.
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