Hauntings, poltergeists, witches and hobgoblins; premonitions, apparitions, timeslips and doppelgangers -.once again Tom Slemen has gathered together a fascinating collection of creepy yet thought-provoking stories for this seventh in the Haunted Liverpool series, all of which make highly entertaining reading.
So, if you're feeling brave, read about:
The devilish jigsaw which terrorised a family by foretelling unpleasant future events as it was pieced together...
Francesca, the porcelain doll, who was abandoned on a rubbish heap and came alive to tame a teenage tearaway...
Benjamin Julius, the artist who cunningly used his art to blackmail his illustrious subjects
The light-fingered docker who was taught a lesson by a huge bouncing bale of India rubber
The mysterious old tramp who predicted the future stardom of one of the Beatles, when he was just a thirteen-year-old lad, playing in Calderstones Park...
Lantern-Jaw - the eerie and violent spectre whose supernatural antics rival that of that other Rodney Street ghost - William Mackenzie...
Kirkby's creepy ghostly knife-wielding transvetite...
Plus many other weird and wonderful stories about Liverpool, told in the inimitable style of Tom Slemen.
The stories in Haunted Liverpool 7 explore the unexplained, the bizarre, the supernatural, the unexpected, and the just plain terrifying. The result is a book which will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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