H.E. Bulstrode

H.E. Bulstrode has been publishing both fiction – ghost stories and occult tales, often with a wry twist – and non-fiction this past ten years or so. He has also published a series of illustrated guides to some of the often overlooked corners of England, focusing upon their folklore and quirky historical heritage: Curious England. He is currently working on a series of related county guides, with Curious Cumbria having been the first to be completed.

His interest in the unusual and the offbeat grew from being raised in the English West Country, a region in which folklore and myth loom large; a strange place, but no stranger than the one in which we all find ourselves now. Jaded with the world of academia, and inspired by the tradition of ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’, he turned his hand to the writing of supernatural fiction. As you step into the Bulstrodian realm of the uncanny, you will encounter ghosts and guardian spirits lurking amidst the quietude of the English countryside, waiting to ensnare and punish the unwary. Here you will find occult tricksters plying their trade alongside the pious and the murderous, where the slash of the sickle and the passion of the hunt mix with blood-soaked ritual spawned upon the moors. The earth holds its secrets, as do the lifeless curios of church, home and field, mysterious leftovers from ages past; pry into them, and their meaning, at your peril.