Into the Wold Newton Triangle

Charles Christian
Urban Fantasist
Published in
3 min readJul 20, 2022

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Or another shameless new book plug!

Apologies for seeming to be like a London bus: there’s no new books from me for 12 months and then two come along within the same month!

This is my new, new book and the second in my Haunted Landscapes series of nonfiction folklore, local history and weird tales. Called The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle: Wraiths, Werewolves & Other Weird Tales from the Yorkshire Wolds, it takes you on a road-trip of the strange and marvellous in this forgotten corner of Yorkshire.

If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre, join me on this road trip around East Yorkshire’s Wold Newton Triangle. Here you will encounter tales of the legendary werewolf Old Stinker, plus zombies, vampires, fairy folk, buried treasure, headless ghosts, screaming skulls, some very eccentric gentry, vanishing rivers, Parkin-eating dragons, the home of Christmas turkeys, England’s tallest monolith, and a grid of ley lines which may, or may not, be connected to the day a giant meteorite crashed to earth. It is a place where fact is stranger than fiction!

Here’s a brief taster…

Two female wraiths walk the streets of Flamborough village. One of them goes by the name of Jenny Gallows and wears an…

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Charles Christian
Urban Fantasist

Journalist, editor, author & sometime werewolf hunter. Writes, drinks tea, knows things. (he/him) www.urbanfantasist.com + www.twitter.com/urbanfantasist