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Eerie Britain Kindle Edition

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Britain: a land with more ghost stories than you can shake an EMF detector at. Perfectly good farmhouses harbour mischievous poltergeists and snowy mountain ranges are home to baffling spectres, while castles and country houses list royal apparitions amongst their denizens. It seems as though around every corner there lurks a ferocious monster legend, a mysterious tale or a terrifying phantom.

The best-selling Eerie Britain takes a vivid look at ten of the most intriguing and terrifying of these real-life cases, revelling in their macabre nature and striving to uncover new facts.

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6 Dec. 2011
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006J5LVJY
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4058 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 91 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 1,128,018 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 3,380 in Supernatural Phenomena
- 4,428 in Unexplained Mysteries
- 1,126,889 in Kindle eBooks

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After many years of writing for other people creating the Eerie Britain series has been something of a labour of love.

Since childhood, I've been fascinated by the huge amount of macabre legends and terrifying tales that can be found here in the British Isles. Writing these books has led me to more interesting places than I could have imagined and digging into these stories has sometimes revealed more than I expected. Many books that deal with mysteries and hauntings simply regurgitate the most well-known elements and leave it at that, but I like to go a little further and delve more deeply into these infamous and frightening tales. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

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Cheryl M-M

Contains facts, myths and the unexplained

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2012

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Interesting compilation of ghost sightings and paranormal activity. The author has added possible scientific solutions to each scenario and his own tuppence worth, which makes it more balanced, as the reader isn't asked to form an opinion either way, just read the story and make ther own assumptions.
Am Fear Liath Mhor: The Terrifying Grey Man of the Cairngorms
I am suprised I have never heard of this apparent Sasquatch like scottish being, I would like to say I am going to take up mountaineering to see, but that just isn't going to happen.
The MacKenzie Poltergeist
Now these crypts, tombs and vaults sound as if there is a whole load of negative energy and perhaps worth a sightseeing tour.
The Undead of the Underground
I never realised how macabre it must have been to tunnel out the Underground and the description of how some of the lines couldn't even be dug through because of the dense amount of human remains is just spooky.
All in all a really good read, with a lot a facts and stories I hadn't heard about before. Def. something for the more ghost hunter inclined.

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Arctine

Intriguing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2012

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Admittedly I do not usually read this sort of book. In fact, this is probably the first collection of ghost stories I've read since I started growing hair on my face. However, when the opportunity arose for me to gain a copy without charge, I thought I may as well take advantage of the offer. I read the book from front to back and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The stories are very well written and as far as I can tell, a good representation of the facts which they're based on. I found every one of the stories to be as curious and gripping as the next. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and would have gladly paid for it. Props to the author, I await your next one.

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not read yet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2015

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Mr. M. T. O'sullivan

A good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2018

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I'm quite interested and open minded regarding the paranormal and read quite a few books of this type. This is one of the better ones I have read. Definitely worth a read.

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clotty

great book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2013

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i loved this book. i usually stick to fiction as i can find factual books a little boring but this book was very well written.

the book is a bout ghost stories and also the facts surrounding them gathered from across Britain. its very gripping and i loved hearing about things i didnt know such as the plague pits and the underground! really fascinating stuff.

would highly recommend for book groups, ghost lovers and people who are just interested in unusual stories!

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liz

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2012

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enjoyed this book very much, loads of interesting stories i had not heard before and found most of them really fascinating, a well worth while read .

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Joseph biggins

Eerie Britain by Mbeki forde

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2012

Good stories in the book but to short
If it was more longer stories
It would be better a read

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A Cut Above The Rest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2012

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Forde brings much-needed credibility to a subject that has been left to crass low-budget television for far too long. The research is excellent, the writing is gripping, and the author never has to stretch his subject matter to prove a point. The chapter on Hampton Court Palace is particularly good, the writer shows how the unexplained remains unexplained without tricksiness or pantomime camp. Highly recommended.

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Dodo

Sachlich und ausführlich

Reviewed in Germany on 11 March 2014

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Wieder einmal ein gutes Beispiel für einen gelungenen Umgang mit rätselhaften Geschichten und Phänomenen, wie ich ihn leider in deutscher Sprache noch nicht gefunden habe.
MB Forde stellt zehn der bekannteren englischen "Urban Legends" und Überlieferungen vor, die sich mit Spuk oder anderen unerklärten Vorkommnissen beschäftigen. Dabei beschreibt der Autor zunächst, worum es geht. Dann fasst er die wichtigsten Berichte zusammen, wobei stets die Urheber und Quellen genannt werden. Und schließlich werden die verschiedenen Erklärungsversuche vorgestellt, auch hier wird genau auf gründliche Quellenarbeit geachtet.
Im Anhang findet man auch eine entsprechende Liste weiterführender Bücher.

Anders als leider zu viele deutsche Autoren predigt Forde keinen Glauben an "Paranormalität" und versucht nicht, Skeptiker zu diffamieren, sondern gibt jedem Ansatz Raum. So werden z.B. zum Grauen Mann von Cairngorm sowohl esoterische Deutungen wie auch naturwissenschaftliche und psychologische Erklärungsversuche dargestellt. Alles im gleichen neutralen Stil ohne persönliche Wertung.

Das vorangestellte Motto im Vorwort ist: wir werden vielleicht eines Tages wissen, was hinter manchen noch rätselhaften Geschehen steckt, wie wir heute auch wissen, wie das Wetter entsteht. Noch wissen wir es nicht und auch Parawissenschaftler stellen nur ihre eigenen Vermutungen an. Keineswegs ist z.B. die Behauptung, es handele sich um ein UFO- oder Geisterphänomen automatisch richtig und unzweifelhaft. Manche Geschichten sind auch schlicht erfunden und immer weiter ausgeschmückt, so dass man hier herausfinden muss, was der wahre Kern ist.
Aber noch können wir nur berichten, was schon untersucht und vermutet wurde.

Da es bei der Vielzahl der englischen Veröffentlichungen (besonders als ebook) schwer ist, die Spreu vom Weizen zu trennnen, hier eine Liste mit Empfehlungen wirklich gut gemachter Bücher zum Thema Geister und unheimliche Erzählungen:

Extreme Hauntings: Britain's Most Terrifying Ghosts

Eerie Britain 2

Scottish Ghosts and Witches: Real Ghost Stories and Legends

Urban Legends Uncovered - Reloaded!

100 True Ghost Stories

True Stories of Ghosts: Usborne True Stories

Frightfully Freaky: 50 Tales of the Strange, Unexplained and Highly Unusual
Frightfully Freaky 2: 50 More Tales of the Strange, Unexplained and Highly Unusual

True Ghost Stories: Jim Harold's Campfire 2 (English Edition)

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Star Girl

A Premiere Introduction for the Unfamiliar

Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2012

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Non-fiction paranormal books are my guilty pleasure--they're always light fare, an escape, and usually inspire a short story or two. Therefore, I look for books on paranormal subjects about which I know little or nothing; unfortunately, not knowing the material means it's easier for me to be turned off by the sometimes seemingly-scantily researched, poorly-written or flat-out boring. MB Forde's Eerie Britain: Ten of Britain's Most Terrifying and Peculiar Real-Life Stories, thankfully, fits none of these descriptions--and, in fact, I'd recommend it as the top primer to anyone unfamiliar with Britain's scariest legends.

First, the text is definitely well-researched; incidents from the past are taken from direct accounts. The writer also provides a list of recommended reading and web resources at the end of the book, so I went on to do more research on two of the book's cases I found most fascinating. Second, the style is not only easy to read, it's linear and gripping; each case starts at Point A and ends at Point Z, providing a clear overview of the case's origin, its repeated occurrences, and where the theories surrounding it stand today. Third, it was thoroughly entertaining--this is not, at all, what I would call "dry"--and, in fact, there were a couple of sections which honestly gave me the chills; the descriptions are vivid enough that, at times, I felt as though I was reading a good fiction.

If there were two negative things I'd say about this book, it's that the punctuation is never inside the quotation marks, as it should be. As a writer, I was totally annoyed to the point of distraction by that. In addition, there were some poorly-constructed sentences (to the point at which I didn't know what he was trying to say), and Chapter 5, in particular, was loaded with improper use of semi-colons and commas as well as typos. The second is that, although, as I said, I can tell it is well-researched, the citations should have been footnoted with the specifics on where to locate the original material.

Despite all of that, the book is honestly a worthwhile read. It grabbed my attention and held it, and because I entered knowing nothing about any of Britain's paranormal legends, I got my money's worth.

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sweetypie

wonderful

Reviewed in the United States on 4 March 2013

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Eerie Britain fantastic book real page turner recommended for anyone who loves really creepy ghosties fantastic good reading cannot wait to get more.

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Rosemary Breen

A Suitably Eerie Book for Bedtime

Reviewed in the United States on 6 September 2012

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I loved this book. It ticks all the boxes for me. Im an Anglophile, and as the author of [...] I know a thing or two about ghosts. Im also the holder of a Master of Education degree, (dissertation - paranormal experiences) and a writer of a blog on parapsychology, and so am well versed in most things paranormal. And, my opinion is that MB Forde writes well on his subject.

In particular, the first few stories are well written and should evoke a suitably eerie feeling in the reader. I would probably question the use of the word terrifying in the title. Scary, yes. Terrifying, not for me.

I applaud the writer for mixing tales of the known and lesser known locations in the UK. It is too easy to stick with the mainstream locations like Hampton Court (where, incidentally my mother saw a ghost, near the kitchens) but instead, Forde has introduced us to what I would describe as local-knowledge hauntings.

Are these ghost stories fiction or non-fiction? Grab the book and decide for yourself.

Rosemary Breen

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