diamond dove 263
Dickens, Charles 16–17, 110, 392
Dinas Mawddwy 335, 340
Dodo (E.F.Benson) 371, 374
Donaldson, St Clair 19
Don’t Look Now (film, 1973) 165
Dorchester 393, 394–5, 399
Dorset Shell Guide (1935) 391, 419
Dowden, Mrs 110
Doyle, Arthur Conan 106–13, 114, 115, 356n
Doyle, Connie 108
Doyle, Denis 108
Doyle, Jean 108, 109
Doyle, Kingsley 106, 108, 111
Dracula (Bram Stoker) 147
Dreads and Drolls (Machen) 229
Dresden 132
Dresser, Christopher 332n
Du Maurier, Daphne 348n
Duddle Heath, Dorset 397
‘Duffy and the Devil’ (Cornish lagend) 361–2
Dumfries Courier 146
Dungeness 412, 413
Dunlop, Lesley 325
Dunsany, Lord 220
Dunwich 269–73, 274, 300, 302, 366
Dunwich Heath 268–9
‘The Dunwich Horror’ (Lovecraft) 273n
Dunwich (painting) 272
The Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliffe) 323
Ealing Studios 222, 243
Eastern Daily Press 32n, 249
The Edge of the World (film, 1937) 150–1 and note, 153, 403n
Edinburgh 310n
Edward Arnold publisher 25n
Eifion 184
Ekland, Britt 168
Elgar, Edward 372
Elidor (Garner) 320n
Eliot, T.S. 83
Ellangowan Hotel, Creetown 174
Elliott, Denholm 16
The Emigrants (Sebold) 259, 291–2, 294–8
Encyclopaedia Britannica 118, 283
An Enemy at Green Knowe (Boston) 28n
England’s Lost Eden (Hoare) 105
English Hours (James) 272–3
Erasmus, Desiderius 250–1
Errwood Hall, Goyt Valley 318–20
Errwood Reservoir, Goyt Valley 318
Eton College 7, 10–11, 19, 205 and note, 372
Evans-Wentz, W.Y. 353–4
Evening News 228, 273
Everett, Henrietta Dorothy 213
Everts, R. Alain 194
Exmoor 246
The Exorcist (film, 1974) 165
The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke (painting) 231
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Evans-Wentz) 353–4
Far from the Madding Crowd (film, 1967) 400
Far Off Things (Machen) 224n
Farnworth, Bessie 201
Faroes 147
Faulkner, William 235, 322
Fawr o Fawddwy, Llywelyn 335
Fechner, Gustav 118
The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) 126
Fen Runners (Gordon) 70
‘The Fenstanton Witch’ (James) 25n
A Field in England (film, 2013) 167n
Final Edition (E.F.Benson) 378
firecrests 347
First Nation 121
Fitzgerald, Edward 272
Fitzgerald, John Anster 231–2
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 12, 13–14 and note
The Five Jars (James) 18n
‘Flannan Isle’ (Brooke) 148–9
Flannan Isles 147–8
Fletton Tower 78
Forster, E.M. 212
Forster, Jacob 270, 273
Forsyth, Frederick 42
‘Fourth Branch’ (from the Mabinogion) 330–2, 338
A Fragment of Life (Machen) 224
Framingham Earl 299–300
Frampton 57
Freiburg 250–2
Freiston 57
Fribourg 252
fulmars 152
Gallico, Paul 66
gannets 152
The Garden (film, 1990) 413n
garden warblers 132
garfish 429–30
Garner, Alan 33n, 71, 211, 310–16, 318, 320–1, 322–5, 326, 328–42
Garstin, Crosbie 361
Gaskell, Elizabeth 312–13
Gatehouse of Fleet 174
Gatiss, Mark 166
Gee, Grant 299n
Geoffrey of Monmouth 211
Georgian poets 87, 148
The Ghost Pirates (Hodgson) 191
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (James) 12, 15–16, 17–18
‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ (TV series, 1971–78) 4, 16, 161, 287, 411–12n
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson 87, 148
Giovanni, Paul 167
Gipps-Kent, Simon 26
Girling, Mary Ann 105, 115
Gladstone, William 370
Glaneifion house, Borth 184, 192–5, 202, 211
Glasgow Boys 177
Glasgow Necropolis 218, 1359
The Go-Between (Hartley) 77–80, 88, 101, 237
Goblin (rock bank) 252
The Golden Bough (Frazer) 160n
golden orioles 131–2, 134
The Golem (film, 1915) 145, 219
Gonville & Caius, Cambridge 14n
Goodnestone 6
Gordon, John 69–74, 78, 286
Goyt Valley 318
Graham, Kenneth 212–13
great black-backed gull 429–30
Great Expectations (film, 1946) 150
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 63
The Great God Pan (Machen) 212, 215, 230
great grey shrike 268
Great Livermere 6, 9
Great Ouse 37, 39, 68–9, 68n
great skua 301–2
great tit 264
‘Green Tea’ (Le Fanu) 114
green woodpecker 382
Greewitch (Cooper) 364
The Grey King (Cooper) 190, 313
Greyfriars, Edinburgh 136, 140
Greyfriar’s Priory, Dunwich 248, 272
Griffiths, Frances 106
Grimshaw, John Atkinson 138
Grose, Francis 143
Guest, Lady Charlotte 330n
Guest, Edwin 392
Haggard, Henry Rider 78
Haggard, Piers 165–6, 406
Halfway House, Blakeney 156, 157, 158, 378
The Halfway House (film, 1944) 222, 243–6, 382
‘Halloween Parade’ (song, 1989) 58, 416
The Halloween Tree (Bradbury) 418
Hammer Horror films 350n, 375, 405n, 420n
Hando, Fred 232, 238
Happisburgh 287
Hardy, Florence 395n
Hardy, Robin 165, 363
Hardy, Thomas 393, 394–5 and note, 398–401, 404
Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire 24
Hartley, Leslie Poles 77–80, 88, 281, 322n
Hartmann, Franz 118
‘The Haunted Doll’s House’ (James) 286n
‘A Haunted House’ (Woolf) 383
Haunters of the Deep (film, 1984) 350n
The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson) 379
Haus zum Walfisch (The Whale House), Freiburg 251–2
Hawaiian goose 66n
Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 123
Heath, Edward 51n
Helpston 48
Helston 362, 364
Hemingford Grey, Cambridgshire 26, 28, 30–5, 68n
Hengistbury Head 416, 425–7
Henry Brocken (de la Mare) 86
Henry, George 177
Henry II 302
Hereford 390n
Hereward the Wake 38
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 218, 230
he
rring gulls 158
The Hill of Dreams (Machen) 215–16, 220–1, 223, 224, 227n
Hiller, Wendy 150
Hills, Gillian 341n
Hinton Ampner, Hants 374
Hippocrates 208
Historia regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth) 211
History of British Birds (Bewick) 40–1
A History of Horror (TV documentary, 2010) 166
Hitler, Adolf 250
Hoare, Philip 105
The Hobbit (Tolkien) 313
Hocking, William Henry 357
Hodgson, Reverend Samuel 186, 187
Hodgson, William Hope 114, 183–205, 211, 214, 223, 269
W.H. Hodgson’s School of Physical Culture, Blackburn 187
Holbeach St Matthew 57, 221
Holihaven 270n
honey buzzards 100–1
hoopoe 301
Hordern, Michael 284, 285
Hordle 105
Horlick’s Magazine and Home Journal for Australia, India and the Colonies 220 and note
Hornel, Edward Atkinson 177
Hornung, E.W. 108
Houdini, Harry 109 and note, 111 and note, 187–8
The House on the Borderland (Hodgson) 183, 186, 193–200, 241, 269, 351
The House on the Brink (Gordon) 69, 70–4, 78, 286
The House by the Churchyard (Le Fanu) 114n
Household Words 16
‘How Fear Departed the Long Gallery’ (E.F.Benson) 373n
Howard, Elizabeth Jane 53, 67
Howes, Sally Ann 223, 245
Hussein, Saddam 66
Hutchinson’s Magazine 375
I Know Where I’m Going! (film, 1945) 150, 153
I Walked With a Zombie (film, 1943) 402n
The Ice House (TV drama, 1978) 412n
Idylls of the King (Tennyson) 211
‘If-’ (Kipling) 84, 90n
The Illustrated London News 59, 257, 374–5
In Ghostly Company (Northcote) 81
‘In the Woods’ (Northcote) 81
Ingpen, Elfie 86
Ingram, Herbert 59 and note
Ingram, Rex 219
The Inheritor (E.F.Benson) 370
Inland Waterways Association 64, 227
Innocents (Barker) 54
Inside The Wicker Man (Brown) 168n
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (film, 1956) 410n
Iraq 66
Irons, Jeremy 62
Ishiguro, Kazu 229, 261, 288
Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser 69
Isle of Skye 147
Isles of Scilly 347, 422
‘Jabberwocky’ (Carroll) 236
jackdaws 161–2, 325, 327, 409
Jackson, Shirley 379
James, Henry 115, 272–3
James, Herbert 6
James, Montague Rhodes ‘Monty’ 1, 3–5, 6–26, 34, 40, 53, 60, 68, 69, 70, 71 and note, 81, 82n, 87–8, 122, 138, 141n, 160, 161, 185–6, 204–5 and note, 212, 219, 265, 273, 296, 313, 358, 369, 372 and note, 374, 390 and note, 417
Jarman, Derek 412–16
Jarrow, Tyne and Wear 69
Jerome, Jerome K. 218, 219–20
Jesus College, Oxford 214
Jodrell Bank 321, 327–8
John Brown’s Body (Barker) 54
John, King 38, 76
Johns, Glynis 245
Johns, Mervyn 245
Jones, John Edward 214–15
Jones, William John 202–3
Journey to Avebury (film, 1971) 414–15
Joyce, James 182, 235
The Jungle Book (Kipling) 92
Just So Stories (Kipling) 92
Kangaroo (Lawrence) 357
Keeping Up Appearances (sitcom, 1990–95) 289n
Kemmel 201
Kemyel Crease nature reserve 330n
Kenidjack 365
Kensal Green Cemetery, London 218, 255
Kenwyn Church 380
Kessingland 301
The Killing Bottle (Hartley) 79
Kimberley Hall, Wymondham 292–4 and note
King, Jessie M. 177
King Lear (Shakespeare) 200
King, Stephen 121, 397n, 417
King’s College, Cambridge 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 87n, 205 and note, 372
King’s Lynn 37, 38, 42, 69
Kipling, Elsie 92–3
Kipling, John 98n
Kipling, Josephine 92, 98
Kipling, Rudyard 84, 89–98 and note, 228
Kirkcudbright 177–9
kittiwakes 152
Kneale, Nigel 405
Know Your Waterways (Aickman) 66
Knowlton 392–3
Kubrick, Stanley 317, 415
Labouchere Amendment (1885) 21n
Ladbroke Grove, London 223–4
Lady Elgin (steamship) 59, 149
‘The Lady of Shalott’ (Tennyson) 84
Lady Windermer’s Fan (Wilde) 373
Lake Michigan 59, 257
Lakenheath Fen 132–4
Lamb House, Rye 374, 377–8
Lamorna 357–8, 360–2, 365
L’Amour, Louis 42
‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (A.C.Benson/Elgar) 372
Land’s End 347, 348, 352n, 365
Landscape with Antiquities, Lamorna (painting) 360–1
Landscape of the Megaliths (lithograph) 412
Lanyon Quoit 348
Laurie, John 153
Lawrence, D.H. 212, 356–7
Lawrence, Frieda 355
Le Fanu, Sheridan 114 and note
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier) 223, 294
Le Morte D’Arthur (Malory) 211
Lean, David 150
Leather and Lace (album, 1990) 66
Lee, Christopher 166, 168n, 169, 257, 375, 420n
Leigh, Mike 160
lesser yellowlegs 347–8 and note
Levant 349–50 and note
Levant Mine 350–1
Lewis, C.S. 200, 313
Lindisfarne (Holy Island) 427–9
linnet 46
Lis Escop (formerly Kenwyn vicarage) 371–2 and note, 376–7, 378, 380
Lisswood house 194–5
The Listener and Other Stories (Blackwood) 126
‘The Listeners’ (de la Mare) 80, 84, 86–7
The Listeners (Edward Parnell) 80
little owl 421–2
Livermere Hall, Suffolk 7, 9
Livermere Lake 5–6
Lives of the Saints (Butler) 322n
Livesey, Roger 150
The Living Stones (Colquhoun) 357, 359, 360–1, 362
Llanddewi Fach 215, 216, 232
Llandegfedd 215
Llanymawddwy 342
Lloyd Parry, Robert 34 and note
Lobster Pot, Mousehole 357
Logan Botanic Gardens 174
The London Adventure (Machen) 217n
London, Jack 109
London Magazine 114
Lonely Water (film, 1973) 51–3, 56, 325n
The Long Good Friday (film, 1980) 325n
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 121n
Longham 416
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) 313
The Lore of the Land (Westwood & Simpson) 312
Losey, Joseph 420n
‘Lost Hearts’ (James) 4–5, 7, 12, 15, 20, 21–6, 28n, 60, 79, 122, 159, 374
Lost Hearts (TV drama, 1973) 287n
‘The Lost Legion’ (Kipling) 228
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips 79 and note, 114, 195, 200, 227n, 230n, 236n, 273n, 366
Lowestoft 254, 267
Lyceum The
atre (London) 255
Mabinogion 329–30 and note, 331–2, 335, 338
Macartney-Filgate, Maurice 202
McBain, Ed 42
McBryde, Gwendolen 18n, 390n
McBryde, James 15–18 and note, 21, 87n, 358–9, 390n, 412
McBryde, Jane 18n
McLachlan, Margaret 173
McDiarmid, John 146
MacGinnis, Niall 150–1, 403 and note
Machen, Amelia ‘Amy’ Hogg 218, 219, 220, 230
Machen, Arthur 88, 120n, 212, 214–21, 222, 223–4, 225–40, 285, 313, 348, 429
Machen, John Edward 214
Machen, Purefoy 221
Mackenzie, John 325n
Magdalene College, Oxford 313, 372
Magic: White and Black (Hartmann) 118
The Magician (film, 1926) 219 and note
The Magician (Maugham) 219
Maiden Castle 393, 394
Maiden Castle (Powys) 393
Malden, R.H. 25n
Malory, Thomas 211
‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’ (Blackwood) 81, 114–19, 122, 129
Manchester Guardian 212
Manchester Mail 312
Manning, Lesley 68
The Manor, Hemingford Grey 26, 30–5
Mansfield, Katherine 356
Manx shearwaters 420
Mapp and Lucia (E.F.Benson) 373–4
Marlborough House School 372
‘Martin Close’ (James) 53
‘Martlake Witches’ (Kipling) 89–90, 92–3
Masefield, John 28
The Masque of the Red Death (film, 1964) 252
Massachusetts 47
Matango (film, 1963) 191
A Matter of Life and Death (film, 1946) 246
Maugham, William Somerset 219
Max Gate, Dorchester 394–5
meadow browns 389
Mediterranean gulls 330n
‘Meeting Mr Millar’ (Aickman) 218n
Melville, Herman 42, 191
Memory in a House (Boston) 29–30, 355
Mên-an-Tol 348, 353, 354
Meteorological Office 200
Mevagissey 363
‘The Mezzotint’ (James) 286n
Middlebere 418
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare) 89
Millais, John Everett 173
Millar, Jeremy 298
Miller, Jonathan 284, 285
Mills, John 405
Minack Theatre 365
the Minch 147
Minsmere nature reserve 267–8
Minstead 106, 112, 356n
‘Missing’ (de la Mare) 88
Moby-Dick (Melville) 42
The Moon of Gomrath (Garner) 318, 320–1
Moonlight Walk (painting) 138
The Moonstone (Collins) 218
Moravian Brotherhood 120
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (James) 265
More Spook Stories (E.F.Benson) 375
Morvah 348
Mothersole, Ann 9
Ghostland Page 34