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England has been dying for 2,000 years.
The Romans died building a wall across the north. The Vikings died raiding every monastery they could find. The plague took a third of the population and left them in mass graves under cities that were built on top of them and forgot to mention it. The Reformation desecrated half the country's sacred sites and left the dead buried in them without the rites they'd been promised.
All of that dying left something behind.
England's dead don't move on. They stay in the castles and cathedrals, in the moorland and the fenlands, in the ruins of abbeys and the crypts of churches and the cellars of pubs. They stay because the burial was wrong, or the death was wrong, or someone needs to know what happened and nobody has listened yet. They stay because English ghosts are specific - they have names, grievances, and a commitment to making their point that death has done nothing to diminish.
Anne Boleyn has been walking Tower Green since 1536, carrying her head, making sure nobody forgets what Henry did. The Grey Lady at Dover Castle pointed at a wall for a century until someone opened it and found the skeleton behind it. Roman soldiers still march Hadrian's Wall because nobody told them the empire fell. The black dogs of East Anglia appear on the coastal paths before deaths you can't prevent. The things in the fens have been leading travelers into deep water since before the Romans arrived and will be doing it long after.
This is not metaphor. This is England.
A Room with a Boo: England is a practical guide to visiting the most haunted country in the world - for people who want the real thing rather than the gift shop version. It covers the full taxonomy of England's supernatural inhabitants: the ghosts and revenants, the demons and malevolent spirits, the nature spirits and household entities, the witches and cursed landscapes, the occult underground running unbroken from John Dee's scrying mirrors in the 1580s to practitioners working in south London right now.
Then it takes you there. London and the Tower. Canterbury. Bath and the sacred south. Cornwall and Devon. The Midlands, East Anglia, the Peak District, the North. York - possibly the most haunted city in Europe. Northumberland and the border country where the wall runs and the soldiers still walk it.
The practical information is here too: when to visit (the sites are what they are; the crowds are a scheduling problem), what to bring, how to move through the country as a disabled traveller, where to eat near the dead, and how to pay attention in the way the dead - who have been waiting 2,000 years - actually require.
They don't need your equipment or your rituals or your belief.
They just need you to show up and pay the right kind of attention.
Try not to disappoint them.
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About the author: Diana Price - no relation to Vincent, the actor, but possibly related to Harry, the paranormal investigator - writes stories that smell faintly of grave soil and old secrets. A former night shift nurse, she has spent more time than most standing at the quiet edge where breath falters and something else seems to lean closer. She knows how death enters a room... and how sometimes, it doesn't quite leave.After a twenty year absence from writing, she returns with stories shaped by that threshold, threaded with astrology and esoteric thought, and a lingering suspicion that the world is far less solid than it pretends to be. She came back with questions... and teeth.Currently haunting Albania, she has one eye fixed across the border on Romania... somewhere in the shadow of Dracula's castle, where the next chapter may already be waiting.dianaprice.comhauntandhallowed.com
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. England has been dying for 2,000 years.The Romans died building a wall across the north. The Vikings died raiding every monastery they could find. The plague took a third of the population and left them in mass graves under cities that were built on top of them and forgot to mention it. The Reformation desecrated half the country's sacred sites and left the dead buried in them without the rites they'd been promised.All of that dying left something behind.England's dead don't move on. They stay in the castles and cathedrals, in the moorland and the fenlands, in the ruins of abbeys and the crypts of churches and the cellars of pubs. They stay because the burial was wrong, or the death was wrong, or someone needs to know what happened and nobody has listened yet. They stay because English ghosts are specific - they have names, grievances, and a commitment to making their point that death has done nothing to diminish.Anne Boleyn has been walking Tower Green since 1536, carrying her head, making sure nobody forgets what Henry did. The Grey Lady at Dover Castle pointed at a wall for a century until someone opened it and found the skeleton behind it. Roman soldiers still march Hadrian's Wall because nobody told them the empire fell. The black dogs of East Anglia appear on the coastal paths before deaths you can't prevent. The things in the fens have been leading travelers into deep water since before the Romans arrived and will be doing it long after.This is not metaphor. This is England.A Room with a Boo: England is a practical guide to visiting the most haunted country in the world - for people who want the real thing rather than the gift shop version. It covers the full taxonomy of England's supernatural inhabitants: the ghosts and revenants, the demons and malevolent spirits, the nature spirits and household entities, the witches and cursed landscapes, the occult underground running unbroken from John Dee's scrying mirrors in the 1580s to practitioners working in south London right now.Then it takes you there. London and the Tower. Canterbury. Bath and the sacred south. Cornwall and Devon. The Midlands, East Anglia, the Peak District, the North. York - possibly the most haunted city in Europe. Northumberland and the border country where the wall runs and the soldiers still walk it.The practical information is here too: when to visit (the sites are what they are; the crowds are a scheduling problem), what to bring, how to move through the country as a disabled traveller, where to eat near the dead, and how to pay attention in the way the dead - who have been waiting 2,000 years - actually require.They don't need your equipment or your rituals or your belief.They just need you to show up and pay the right kind of attention.Try not to disappoint them. England has been dying for two thousand years. The dead didn't leave.A practical guide to haunted England - for readers who want the real thing, not the gift shop version. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798256002275
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - England has been dying for 2,000 years.The Romans died building a wall across the north. The Vikings died raiding every monastery they could find. The plague took a third of the population and left them in mass graves under cities that were built on top of them and forgot to mention it. The Reformation desecrated half the country's sacred sites and left the dead buried in them without the rites they'd been promised.All of that dying left something behind.England's dead don't move on. They stay in the castles and cathedrals, in the moorland and the fenlands, in the ruins of abbeys and the crypts of churches and the cellars of pubs. They stay because the burial was wrong, or the death was wrong, or someone needs to know what happened and nobody has listened yet. They stay because English ghosts are specific - they have names, grievances, and a commitment to making their point that death has done nothing to diminish.Anne Boleyn has been walking Tower Green since 1536, carrying her head, making sure nobody forgets what Henry did. The Grey Lady at Dover Castle pointed at a wall for a century until someone opened it and found the skeleton behind it. Roman soldiers still march Hadrian's Wall because nobody told them the empire fell. The black dogs of East Anglia appear on the coastal paths before deaths you can't prevent. The things in the fens have been leading travelers into deep water since before the Romans arrived and will be doing it long after.This is not metaphor. This is England.A Room with a Boo: England is a practical guide to visiting the most haunted country in the world - for people who want the real thing rather than the gift shop version. It covers the full taxonomy of England's supernatural inhabitants: the ghosts and revenants, the demons and malevolent spirits, the nature spirits and household entities, the witches and cursed landscapes, the occult underground running unbroken from John Dee's scrying mirrors in the 1580s to practitioners working in south London right now.Then it takes you there. London and the Tower. Canterbury. Bath and the sacred south. Cornwall and Devon. The Midlands, East Anglia, the Peak District, the North. York - possibly the most haunted city in Europe. Northumberland and the border country where the wall runs and the soldiers still walk it.The practical information is here too: when to visit (the sites are what they are; the crowds are a scheduling problem), what to bring, how to move through the country as a disabled traveller, where to eat near the dead, and how to pay attention in the way the dead - who have been waiting 2,000 years - actually require.They don't need your equipment or your rituals or your belief.They just need you to show up and pay the right kind of attention.Try not to disappoint them. Codice articolo 9798256002275
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