Mothersole, Charles 9
Mow Cop 323, 327–9
‘Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance’ 265 and note
Murnau, F.W. 23, 146–7
‘The Music on the Hill’ (Saki) 213
Mynydd Llwyd (Grey Hill) 232–40, 244, 246
Mysterious Britain (Bord) 348, 353
Nanquidno 365
Nash, Eveleigh 200
Nash, Paul 317, 353, 391, 393, 412, 419
National Trust 73, 349–50, 374
National Trust for Scotland 141
Nation’s Favourite Poems (BBC, 1995) 84
A Natural History of Ghosts (Clarke) 7n
Natural History Museum 9
‘Negotium Perambulans’ (E.F.Benson) 365–9
Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square 256
Nesfield, William Andrews 265
New Arabian Nights (Stevenson) 226
New Forest 100, 102–6, 112, 114–15, 122–3, 295, 356n, 401
New Statesman 88
New York (album, 1989) 58
Newlyn 177, 358
Newport 211
‘The Next Heir’ (Everett) 213
Nicholson, Jack 415
Nicolson, Adam 147
Night of the Big Heat (film, 1967) 420n
Night of the Demon (film, 1957) 401–2 and note, 403–4
The Night Land (Hodgson) 186, 198, 200
nightjars 416–17
Nine Ghosts (Malden) 25n
Ninian, St 169, 171
‘No Man’s Land’ (Buchan) 152–3
Nocturnal Landscape (painting) 353
‘No.I Branch Line: The Signalman’ (Dickens) 16
North Brink 73
Northcote, Amyas 80–3
Northcote, Sir Stafford 80 and note
Norwich 249, 252
Norwich Castle Museum 260
Norwich Cathedral 287n
Nosferatu (film, 1922) 23, 146–7
Notting Hill Gate, London 218
‘The Novel of the Black Seal’ (Machen) 226, 226–7, 230 and note, 232–3, 235
‘The Novel of the White Powder’ (Stevenson) 226
‘Number 13’ (James) 15
O’Connor, Joseph 25–6
‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ (James) 17, 68, 82n, 273–9, 284–5, 412n
Oliphant, Margaret 141n
Omnibus (TV series) 284
Onions, Oliver 218n
‘The Open Door’ (Oliphant) 141n
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens) 17
‘Out of the Earth’ (Machen) 231, 429
Over the Sea, Under the Stone (Cooper) 47, 364
The Owl Service (Garner) 33n, 71, 329–33, 334–7, 338–9, 341–2, 410
The Owl Service (TV drama, 1969) 333–4, 339–41, 342
Padstow 363
Pall Mall Magazine 12, 375
Pan’s Garden (Blackwood) 115
Pan’s Labyrinth (film, 2006) 214
passerines 46
Patience (After Sebald) (documentary, 2012) 299n
Peckinpah, Sam 288, 366n
Peckover House, Wisbech 73
Pelham Mausoleum, Brocklesby Park 25
Penda’s Fen (TV drama, 1974) 161, 325
Pentreath, Dolly 352
Penzance 358, 366, 423
Pet Sematary (King) 121
Petcher, Stephen 325
Peterborough 38, 68
Peterson, Andrew 105
Peto, Sir Samuel 255–6, 264
Pevsner, Nikolaus 254, 255
Pheneas Speaks (Doyle) 107–8
Pilgrim Hospital, Boston 59, 63, 209–10, 240, 282, 300, 304
Pink Floyd 213n
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (album, 1967) 213n
Piper, John 412
‘Pirates’ (E.F.Benson) 375–81
The Plague of the Zombies (film, 1966) 350n
Play for Today (BBC drama series) 160, 163, 324
Pleasance, Donald 51, 52, 53
The Pleasant Land of Gwent (Hando) 232–3
‘Ploughman Poet’ (Burns) 140, 143–4
Plummer, Peter 339
Poe, Edgar Allan 252, 392
Polanski, Roman 164n
Poole 416, 418
Poole Hospital 423–4
Porlock Hill 158n
Porridge (sitcom, 1973–77) 288
Porthgwarra 365, 365–6
Portland Bill 419–20 and note
‘The Portobello Road’ (Spark) 224
Potter, Dennis 160
Pound, Ezra 83
Powell, Michael 150, 151n, 153, 219n, 246, 403n
Powys, John Cowper 393
Pressburger, Emeric 150, 246
Price, Vincent 173
Proust, Marcel 182
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Kipling) 89
Puddletown 398
puffins 152
puss moths 125
Quatermass (Kneale) 405
Quatermass and the Pit (film, 1967) 405n
Quatermass (TV drama, 1979) 405–8
Quebec 121
Rainbarrows, Dorset 399
Ramal, Walter (pseud of de la Mare) 86
Rananim writing commune 356
‘The Raven’ (Poe) 392
ravens 391–2 and note
Red Book of Hergest 329–30
Red Shift (Garner) 33n, 322–4, 326–9, 329, 339, 341, 343, 410
Red Shift (TV drama, 1978) 324–5 and note
red-breasted geese 66
Redgrave, Michael 149, 222–3 and note
Reed, Lou 58, 416
Rees, Dafydd 335
Reform Club, London 255
Regent’s Park Zoo 260
Religio Medici (Sebald) 226
The Remains of the Day (film, 1993) 288
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro) 288
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 182
Rennie, John 65
The Return (de la Mare) 87
The Return of the Native (Hardy) 397, 399
Reuter, Florizel von 110
Rewards and Fairies (Kipling) 89, 90n
Rhins of Galloway 174
‘Ringing the Changes’ (Aickman) 270n
The Rings of Saturn (Sebald) 252–64, 268–9, 271
Rive Usk 211
River Bladnoch 173
River Dovey 335, 336, 337n
River Glen 39, 42, 43
River Nene 39, 64, 65, 68, 73, 76, 78
River Tamar 355
River Tiffey 292
River Waveney 254
River Welland 39, 42, 57
River Wye 211, 242
Robertson, Walford Graham 115
Robin Redbreast (TV drama–1970) 160 and note, 161–4, 173
Rolt, L.T.C. ‘Tom’ 64n, 67, 227
‘The Roman Road’ (Hardy) 398
rooks 48
The Room in the Tower (E.F.Benson) 375
‘The Room in the Tower’ (E.F.Benson) 375
‘The Rose Garden’ (James) 9
Rosemary’s Baby (film, 1968) 164 and note, 230
Rosmerryn House, Lamorna 361–2
Ross, Robert 373
Royal Academy 231
Royal Albert Hall 111–12
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (E.Fitzgerald) 272
Rudheath 323
Rudkin, David 161
Rudolf II 145
Rufus Stone 103–4, 108
Rushy Pond, Dorset 397–8
Rye 374, 378
Saddlebole, Alderley Edge 312
St Bartholomew’s Hospital 416
St Bertoline’s church, Barthomley 325–7
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St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 136
St David’s church, Llanddewi Skirrid 217
St Ives 177
St James’s church, Dunwich 272
St John the Baptist church, Chaceley 161–2, 325
St Just 365
St Kilda 150–1 and note
St Levan 365
St Marys church, Amersham 221
St Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow 135
St Ninian’s Cave 169–71
St Paul’s Cathedral 86, 420
St Peter and St Paul, Little Livermere 6–7, 11
St Peter’s Church, Great Livermere 6, 8–10
Saint Senara church, Zennor 355
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 213
Salem’s Lot (TV series, 1979) 121
Sargent, John Singer 115
Schreck, Max 23, 122
Scott, Peter 65, 66–7, 69, 74, 78
Scott, Robert Falcon 65
Scribner’s Magazine 93
Scum (TV drama, 1977) 161
Sea Room (Nicolson) 147
seals 62, 157–8
Seas End 68
‘Seaton’s Aunt’ (de la Mare) 85
Sebald, Winifred Georg ‘Max’ 226, 250–4, 256–9 and note, 261–5, 290–2, 294–300, 325
’Secret Worship’ (Blackwood) 120
Severn Estuary 242
Shaffer, Anthony 160n
Shakespeare, William 89, 324
Shaw, George Bernard 200
Shell Guides 391, 419
Shep Whites 57, 68
Shiant Islands 147
The Shining (film, 1980) 415
The Shining (King) 397n
‘The Shining Pyramid’ (Machen) 227, 230
Shortlands, nr Bromley 117n
Shrigley, Reverend 312
Silbury Hill 409
Silver on the Tree (Cooper) 364
Simpson, Jacqueline 312
Sizewell 269
‘Skule Skerry’ (Buchan) 152–5
skylarks 385
Skyros 87
Slade School of Art 15, 358, 412
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut) 132, 307
Sleep No More (Rolt) 64n
smew 46
Smith, Clark Ashton 200
snipe 46
Snowdonia 188, 202, 334–5
Soal, Mr 110
Solway Firth 172
‘Some Remarks on Ghost Stories’ (James) 22n, 71 and note
Somerleyton Hall, nr Lowestoft 254–60, 261–7, 325
Somerset Maugham Award 54
The Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow) 121n
Songs of Childhood (de la Mare) 86
Sooley, Howard 415
‘Sounds of the Wood’ (James) 8
Southampton General Hospital 123
Southsea 91
Southwold 267
Spalding 43
Spare, Austin Osman 368
Spark, Muriel 224
sparrowhawk 46
Spiritualism 106–12
Spook Stories (E.F.Benson) 375
spoonbills 378 and note
spotted flycatcher 389–90
The Stalls of Barchester (TV drama, 1971) 287n
Staplehurst 16–17
starlings 377–8
The Stepford Wives (film, 1975) 410n
Stevens, Dr George 371n
Stevenson, Robert Louis 226
Stigma (TV drama, 1977) 412n
Stoker, Bram 255
‘The Stolen Child’ (Yeats) 230–1
Stone of Gronw 337 and note
stonechats 46
Stonehenge 401–5
Stonehenge (painting) 404–5
storm petrels 152, 426
Stormy Point, Alderley Edge 309, 310, 312
The Strand Magazine 106–7
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson) 226
Straw Dogs (film, 1971) 288, 366n
Stukeley, William 405
‘Submerged’ (Barker) 54–7
Suffolk and Norfolk: A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of their History and their Ancient Buildings (James) 6–7, 265
Sule Skerry 152, 155, 158
Surfleet Reservoir (Seas End on maps) 43
Suspicion (TV series, 1958) 191
Suspiria (film, 1977) 251–2
Sutcliffe, Rosemary 323
Sutton Bridge East Lighthouse 64–5, 66, 69, 74, 78
Svalbard 172, 263
Sway 105
Swift, Clive 289n
Swift, Graham 39–40, 63, 68–9
swifts 123–4, 388
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 271–2
‘The Swords’ (Aickman) 362 and note
‘A Tale of an Empty House’ (E.F.Benson) 156n, 378
The Tales of Algernon Blackwood 130
Tamla Motown 347n
tawny owls 125
tawny pipit 421
Taylor, E.A. 177
Taylor, R. Dean 347n
The Tempest (Shakespeare) 191, 365
Temple Grove prep school, Parsons Green 10, 372
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 84, 211, 370
Ternan, Ellen 17
terns 378
The Terror (Machen) 273 and note
Terry, Ellen 93 and note, 115
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy) 404
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (film, 1974) 290
Theosophical Society 106
‘There’s a Ghost in my House’ (song, 1967/1974) 347n
‘They’ (Kipling) 93–8
Things Near and Far (Machen) 219
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan) 152
Thom, James 145–6 and note
Thomas, Edward 132
Thomas, John 255 and note
Thomsas, R.S. 182
The Three Imposters (Machen) 226, 235
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome) 218
‘Three Miles Up’ (Howard) 53, 67–8 and note
Thunder Rock (film, 1942) 149–50, 151–2, 222, 223n, 243
The Time Machine (Wells) 197
The Times 108
Tinners Arms, Zennor 355
‘To the Torrent at the Devil’s Bridge’ (Wordsworth) 195n
Told After Supper (Jerome) 219–20
Tolkien, J.R.R. 126, 313
Topographica Hibernica (Cambrensis) 172
Torquay 92
Tourneur, Jacques 402n
Tower of London 392
‘The Tractate Middoth’ (James) 14n, 274
Traffics and Discoveries (Kipling) 93
The Travelling Grave (Hartley) 79
‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’ (James) 19, 160
treecreepers 124
Tregurtha, Mrs Jane 353–4
Trelissick House, nr Truro 377
Tresco’s Great Pool 422–3
Truro 371
Truro Cathedral School 377
‘A Tryst in an Ancient Earthwork’ (Hardy) 393
The Turn of the Screw (James) 272–3 and note, 374
Turner, J.M.W. 272, 404–5, 412
Turnham Green 217
Twenty 75
Twice a Fortnight Society, Cambridge University 19
Twyn Barlwm 217
Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele 205
Ulysses (Joyce) 182
University of East Anglia 252, 290
University of Edinburgh 113
University of Freiburg 250
University of Manchester 252
Upwell 70
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Valk, Frederick 223n
Vaughan, Peter 288
Vermuyden, Cornelius 38
Vernatti, Philibert 55n
Vernatt’s Drain 42, 55 and note
Victoria, Queen 370, 372
Victoria (ship) 261
‘A View from a Hill’ (James) 390 and note
‘A Vignette’ (James) 11 and note, 114n, 212
Visible and Invisible (E.F.Benson) 375
‘A Visitor from Down Under’ (Hartley) 79
‘The Voice in the Night’ (Hodgson) 191–2, 241
Vonnegut, Kurt 132, 307
Vow Cave 360, 361
Waite, A.E. 218, 220n
Wandrei, Donald 79
‘A Warning to the Curious’ (James) 70, 285–6, 313
A Warning to the Curious (TV drama, 1972) 287–90
the Wash 57, 60–4, 65, 68
The Watcher in the Woods (film, 1980) 102
Waterland (film, 1992) 62
Waterland (Swift) 39–40, 41–2, 63, 68–9
Waterloo Bridge, London 65
Watership Down (film, 1978) 235
Watts-Dutton, Theodore 271
‘The Way through the Woods’ (Kipling) 89
We Are for the Dark (Aickman & Howard) 67
Wegener, Paul 145, 219
Weird Tales magazine 273n
Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Garner) 211, 310, 311–12, 313–14, 316, 329
Wellington College 370, 375
Wells, H.G. 197
Welney 40
‘The Wendigo’ (Blackwood) 121 and note, 122
Wertach im Allgäu 250
West Bradenham Hall, Thetford 77, 78
Westleton Heath 268
Westwood, Jennifer 312
Weymouth 420 and note
wheatear 159
Wheatley, Ben 167n
Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer 393
When the Wind Blows (Briggs) 101
‘Where Dunwich Used To Be’ (Swinburne) 271
Where Shall We Run To? (Garner) 311
’The Whisperer in Darkness’ (Lovecraft) 227n, 230n
Whistle and I’ll Come To You (TV drama, 1968) 284–5
White Book of Rhydderch 329–30
‘The White People’ (Machen) 81, 235–7, 239–40
whitethroats 389
Whithorn 169
Whittlesey 77
whooper swan 40n
The Wicker Man (film, 1973) 159–60 and note, 162, 163n, 164–5, 167–70, 171–2, 173–9, 256–7, 317, 363, 364
The Wickerman Festival 178–9 and note
Wiener, Robert 22
Wigtown 172
Wigtown Martyrs 173
Wilde, Oscar 109, 110, 115, 373
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust 66n
Wilkinson, Marc 167
William the Conqueror 103
William II 103
William Rufus 103, 105
willow warbler 238
willows 124–34
‘The Willows’ (Blackwood) 126–31, 213, 219, 415
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